John Zorn Quotes

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

John Zorn

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• I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Think
  • Always

• In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Wall
  • Research
  • Street

• I always learn something from every actor I've ever worked with. I always pick something from them.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Always
  • Learn
  • Actor

• I've been doing silly voices since I was a child.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Child
  • Doing
  • Silly

• On some days in prison you might just need to get out of there, but on some days - not all days, but some - you might be able to see the sky and see the blue in it.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Sky
  • Blue
  • Prison

• Boxing's in my genes. I come from a fighting background. My dad and both my uncles were good boxers. I'm blessed with the art of war.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Good
  • Art
  • War

• I'm willing to do whatever I need to do to change.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Change
  • Need
  • Whatever

• People are so familiar with the show that I think they're perfectly happy to let it go by without asking any questions. There's a passivity to how we experience 'The Sound of Music.'

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • People
  • Music
  • Experience

• Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to what language can teach us.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Done
  • Purpose

• The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Soul
  • Sad

• Capitalism is the greatest benefactor man has ever had. It is time for the thinking men and women of every nation to recognize that fact and to fully embrace the system of the mind and of individual rights. Men and women of all countries unite - in your support of capitalism. You have a world of joyous achievement to win.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• Every NBA player, every athlete, I think once you get to this level in life, whether you have kids or you're about to have kids, understands that this is so much bigger than this sport.

  

  Allan Houston
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Player

• 'West Side Story' I used to watch all the time - I don't know why. Well, I do - it's a great movie. I love the music in it. I love the actors.

  

  Charlie Rowe
  • Time
  • Great
  • Music

• I don't know if ISU helped me become what I am, but I know that if I hadn't gone there, I wouldn't be what I am today.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Today

• Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • People
  • Reality
  • Wonder

• I moved out to L.A. to be a filmmaker or director. I didn't even think about doing comedy or even acting. I wanted to be like Paul Thomas Anderson or Wes Anderson, but I wasn't going to a lot of comedy.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Comedy

• I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' which I recorded in 2006, that I went back to the clarinet. It felt like it was waiting for me!

  

  Anat Cohen
  • School
  • High
  • Waiting

• Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Time
  • Book
  • Picture

• True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Men
  • True
  • Faith

• I'd love to do a really cheap action movie. I'd love to do stunts. I mean, not myself. I'd hurt myself, but I'd love to direct others doing stunts. I think that would be a blast. The funny thing is, if I really think through this fantasy, I know that the way I conceive of doing an action movie would still lose money. No matter how far I think I'm getting away from myself, it always comes back to something that's not terribly commercial.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Hurt

• Run focus groups. Do whatever you need to do to get 8 to 10 people together in a room and put your product in front of them. Ask them how much they would pay for it and whether they would pay for it. It's really important to get user validation early and often.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • People
  • Important
  • Together

• When Phil and I hit that one spot where I call it 'The Everly Brothers,' I don't know where it is. 'Cause it's not me and it's not him. It's the two of us together. I sing the lead, and so I can drift off. Then we'll come back in together and the whole thing happens again. It amazes me sometimes.

  

  Don Everly The Everly Brothers
  • Together

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

  

  John Zorn