John Zorn Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.”

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

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

“Man, Dick Dale shreds. He's welcomed to anybody's bar mitzvah.”

“I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.”

“I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.”

“I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together.”

“I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.”

“I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'”

“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.”