Quotes by John Zorn

John Zorn

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

Ends

Stage

Trying

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.

Attention

Friends

Support You

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.

Mean

Preparation

Sound

Discipline is important as long as you’re having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that’s why I don’t have any grey hairs.

Discipline

Hair

Thinking

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

Discovery

Eye

Time

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People’s ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

People

Tunnels

Years

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don’t like

Accepting

Great Music

Musician

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can’t sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you’re doing it all by yourself.

Creative

Thinking

Writing

I don’t ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn’t work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who’s playing.

Ideas

Ivory Tower

Jobs

I don’t play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

Beautiful

Philosophy

Running

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Accepting

Age

Angel

Art

Artist

Attention

Baby

Beach

Beautiful

Believe

Challenges

Children

Cities

Crazy

Creative

Dark

Discipline

Discovery

Doe

Doubt

Ends

Energy

Events

Eye

Feelings

Flow

Friends

Get Up

Giving

Great Music

Hair

Hard Times

Heart

Home

House

Humor

Idealist

Idealistic

Ideas

Impatient

Interesting

Irrelevant

Ivory Tower

Japan

Jobs

Kids

Knows

Labels

Legacy

Life

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Quotes by John Zorn

John Zorn

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

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.

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.

Discipline is important as long as you’re having a good time. What I always did was I did what I enjoyed, and I think that’s why I don’t have any grey hairs.

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

For about seven years. I really like it there. There are a lot of great musicians. The scene is very open. A lot of stuff going on. People’s ears are really open, they are not closed. A lot of scenes here, people just get tunnel vision and are into one thing.

Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don’t like

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can’t sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you’re doing it all by yourself.

I don’t play favorites with people. My basic philosophy is that the only way to make the world a better place is by bringing something beautiful to every single person you run into at every moment of the day, so how can you play favorites with somebody?

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