John Zorn Quotes (26 quotes)

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„That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.“
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„As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.“
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„I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.“
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„The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive.“
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„I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.“
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„I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.“
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„You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!“
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„One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.“
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„Each record in the 'Book of Angels' series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions.“
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„Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.“
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„And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.“
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„Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.“
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„It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.“
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„I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.“
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„That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes.“
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„One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'“
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„I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.“
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„Classical stuff takes a lot of rehearsal time and preparation, but with stuff that involves improvisation, you can over-rehearse it and it gets stale. You don't want it to be too comfortable. In fact, a good sound check, a good rehearsal usually means a bad performance.“
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„If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we're so pluralist.“
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„Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.“
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John Zorn
Author born: September 02, 1953
Nationality: American
Author Profession: Composer

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