John Zorn Quotes
Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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No amount of debt restructuring, even debt forgiveness, will help the Greeks achieve real prosperity. What they need is not short-term relief but, rather, a long-term cure.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.
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'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.
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If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
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I didn't live far from where Leopold and Loeb lived on Chicago's South Side, so I had heard about them as a kid.
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When you win a world title, you are motivated to work.
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When I was a child, I probably should have been medicated about my obsession with The Spice Girls. I had the Buffalo shoes, a customised Baby Spice necklace - when I say custom-made, it was made out of plastic from the local mall - and a Union Jack dress.
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If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.
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Early in my career, I was really spoiled with a beautiful project. I got such a good start that I thought, 'Why would I ever take a step back?' Why would I take on something that wasn't meaningful - to me, if nobody else - and powerful and groundbreaking?
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Why is the measure of love... loss? pg.9
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Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.
