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. ↗

— John Zorn

#been #changing #doing #getting #i

It breaks even. We lose ten, twenty grand every year. But then the people who are working say, Look, I'll kick this back in, I don't need to take this profit share. It's very cooperative. ↗

— John Zorn

#breaks #cooperative #even #every #grand

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. ↗

— John Zorn

#cause #event #gonna #happen #i

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music. ↗

— John Zorn

#get #i #improvisation #improvise #improvising

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds. ↗

— John Zorn

#cloth #drum #drum set #dues #fact

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell. ↗

— John Zorn

#got #i #in print #keep #label

People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change. ↗

— John Zorn

#change #hard #hard time #people #sometimes

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. ↗

— John Zorn

#challenge #challenges #composer #doing #hundred

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. ↗

— John Zorn

#answers #ask #becomes #began #environment

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

— John Zorn

#idealists #society #survive #will