“We live in an age of music for people who don't like music. The record industry discovered some time ago that there aren't that many people who actually like music. For a lot of people, music's annoying, or at the very least they don't need it. They discovered if they could sell music to a lot of those people, they could sell a lot more records.” PeopleIfsNeedsAgeRecordsIndustrySellsAnnoyingMusic Business Author:T Bone Burnett
“Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesRecordsCivilizationMusicianCompetitionWesternPregnancyWestern Civilization Author:T Bone Burnett
“My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.” IdeasRecordsProduceOriginalsOriginal Ideas Author:T Bone Burnett
“Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.” YearsStillsTwoThreeRecordsPeriodsThree YearsDocumentsTaxi Author:T Bone Burnett
“I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.” PlayWholeHappensRecordsThings HappenLoudI've LearnedLoud Music Author:T Bone Burnett
“It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.” TryingRecordsOvercomingSurfaceNoiseIronicTapeAlways TryingOld DaysVinyl Author:T Bone Burnett
“The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.” PeopleThinkingWayTryingArtProblemIndividualRecordsDangerousBandCompromise Author:T Bone Burnett
