John Zorn Quotes

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

John Zorn

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• But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Time
  • Music
  • Believe

• I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Music
  • Me
  • Movies

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Music
  • Men
  • Man

• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • History
  • Bridges

• I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Time
  • Music
  • Listening

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• I work on words quite separately to music. They're both ongoing, and I don't ever feel like I'm working in a cycle in that respect, because it's every day anyway, no matter what I'm doing. Then I get to a point when I've collected together enough words that seem like they want to be songs rather than poems, or sometimes not.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Music
  • Together

• Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Value

• I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Music
  • Art
  • Remember

• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.

  

  Imelda May
  • World
  • Music
  • Mind

• I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Success
  • Lost

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.

  

  Beck
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Good
  • Music
  • Words

• Not that I want to put the entire rap music style down - I just don't like it. And I know somewhere there's gotta be another guy like that. There's gotta be a guy just like that - just like me. There's gotta be somebody, somewhere... Maybe, maybe an assassin type.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Music
  • Guy
  • Me

• It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Conscience

• When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

  

  John W. Gardner
  • Up
  • May
  • Presidential

• We've always had a love/hate relationship with numbers.

  

  Jimmy Wales
  • Hate
  • Relationship

• Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

  

  Abraham Flexner
  • Science
  • Problems
  • Act

• My nursery school did a production of 'The Three Little Pigs.' I played the third pig. When the wolf knocked on my door, I refused to get up and answer it because, to me, he was knocking the wrong way. I just lay there, snoring away on stage, fully immersed in my character. My dad turned to my mom and said: 'Dustin Hoffman.'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • School
  • Character

• I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

  

  John Zorn
  • Music