I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York to happen, because there was a…

- T Bone Burnett

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

- T Bone Burnett

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

- T Bone Burnett

The essence of show business is, if you see a tight-rope walker go across a tight rope, everybody claps. But, if you see him wobble, everybody gasps.

- T Bone Burnett

The more perfect music we have, the more attractive the peculiarities and anomalies of human performance become. Perfection is a second rate idea.

- T Bone Burnett

If it is true that we have a personal relationship with God, then that's enough for me.

- T Bone Burnett

Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

- T Bone Burnett

Honesty is the most subversive of all disguises.

- T Bone Burnett

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

- T Bone Burnett