John Zorn Quotes

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.

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Fear
  • Intimacy
  • Thrive

• Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Day

• I think you can say anybody uses anything as a gimmick. Is Adele's not having gimmicks her gimmick? It's hard to say, isn't it? Really, I think that everybody has something that people like or that's great about them.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • People
  • Great
  • Think

• I was unbelievably lucky.

  

  Wendy Hiller
  • Lucky
  • Unbelievably

• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Men
  • Long
  • Home

• Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.

  

  Zhang Jindong
  • Problem
  • Risk
  • Financial

• I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Good
  • Like
  • Dark

• If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Night
  • Son
  • Child

• You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • People
  • You
  • Go

• Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

  

  Val Guest
  • Writing
  • Money
  • Bad

• I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Life
  • Emotional
  • My Life

• Leadership has become a heavy industry. Concern and interest about leadership development is no longer an American phenomenon. It is truly global. Though I will probably be in less demand, I wanted to move on.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • American
  • Leadership
  • Move

• To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Luck
  • Soldier
  • Skill

• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Basic
  • Supplied

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  

  Carl Orff
  • Time
  • Children
  • Heart

• It would be a sad story to get rid of religious belief, national identity, family, and even sexual identity. That's not freedom.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Family
  • Freedom
  • Religious

• Were the Rolling Stones good looking? Well, Jagger was, but the rest of the dudes? Maybe not so much.

  

  Ashton Irwin 5 Seconds of Summer
  • Good
  • Rest

• I've had to work very hard, and I don't really have a category or fit into any niche, so each time I come out with a new record, it's like, I'm a new guy.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Time
  • Work
  • Guy

• According to a new study, most men would like women to occasionally pick up the check. The study also found that most women would occasionally like to be paid as much as men for doing the same job.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

  

  Dan Rather
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Alligator

• When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Good

• 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.

  

  John Zorn
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