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John Zorn

"I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages."

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Donna Grant

"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."

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Donna Grant

"I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude."

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Donna Grant

"I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing how those companies operate, it didn't amount to a massive vote of confidence in their artists. There was talk of me going to Columbia after that, but nothing happened. I got disillusioned, and I pulled back."

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Donna Grant

"A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist."

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Donna Grant

"For us chess players the language of artist is something natural."

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Donna Grant

"So I guess the complete lack of any new developments is what struck me. That and the fact that much of the good we had done for the artists' side of the industry with G.O.D. had been just as quickly undone by the big boys."

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Donna Grant

"I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them."

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Donna Grant

"I don't mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I'm not one of those artists who's going to sit here and deny the past."

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Donna Grant

"One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue."

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John Zorn
"Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea."

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John Zorn
"It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge."

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

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John Zorn
"You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!"

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John Zorn
"The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive."

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

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John Zorn
"I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading."

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John Zorn
"That's where I began to ask questions that maybe don't have one specific answer. And the more people you get answers from, the richer the environment becomes."

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John Zorn
"It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen."

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John Zorn
"I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing."

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