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John Zorn Quotes

American - Composer | September 2, 1953 -

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.

Challenge Yourself Challenges Year

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

People City Information Naked Turn

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.

Tired My Own Out Own Started Sell

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.

People Tough Someone Hands You Go

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

People Edge Matter Spontaneous

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative.

People Year Lose Look Back Profit

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.

Reading Thinking Name Doing Ready

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

Art Myself Me Dark See I See

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.

Music Me Someone Doing Go Run

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.

Life Together My Life Way Same Put

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

Work Humor Sense Of Humor Way Wit

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.

Work People Phone Three Office Line

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