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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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"You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy."

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"I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are."

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

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

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