If someone is a straight jazzhead, or a straight metalhead, or straight classical, they have a very narrow range of what they allow into their lives. But the people who listen to what we put out into the world have to be open-minded. Because we’re so pluralist. John Zorn Read Quote
Anything that gets in the way of my focus to create gets cut out of my life. It’s not easy. Sometimes it’s family. Sometimes it’s friends. Sometimes it’s the ability to have a relationship. John Zorn Read Quote
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. John Zorn Read Quote
One thing that I do ask myself when I’m in the creative process is, ‘Does the world need this?’ John Zorn Read Quote
And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage. John Zorn Read Quote
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. John Zorn Read Quote
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. John Zorn Read Quote
Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now. John Zorn Read Quote
