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John Zorn Quotes

American - Composer | September 2, 1953 -

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.

Me Control Musicians Want Group See

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.

Good Great Musicians Find Accept

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.

Vision Great People Musicians Tunnel

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

Great Time Eye Discovery He

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

I Can Try Always Stage Up Being

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.

End House Mean Up Note Saxophone

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.

Good Time Preparation Performance

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

Music Together Solo Up Improvisation

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 Moment Day People World

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.

Change Time People Sometimes Hard

One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'

Myself Creative World Process Need

You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something going on here. And whether you want to call it channeling or being connected to a creative force or knowing your history and knowing where you belong, that's, you know, maybe a personal thing.

History Yourself Creative Think You

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