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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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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

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"All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds."

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"I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted."

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"Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts."

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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."

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"Musicians always come off sounding a little bit pretentious, and a little bit... I don't know, hypocritical, from what they do, talking about strong issues."

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"The Doors were never that good as musicians."

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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."

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"We're not spokespeople, we're musicians."

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"I guess fortunate that I'm still around and I emphasize I guess because you never can tell what musicians would be playing had they been around as long as I have."

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