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John Zorn

"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."

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"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."

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"I put together the influences of my life in as clear a way as I possibly can, in the same way that Beethoven or Schoenberg or Bach put their influences together."
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"That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year."
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"When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way."
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"The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive."
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