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John Zorn

And I try to be as diplomatic...

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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John Zorn

Great musicians accept everyt...

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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John Zorn

That was my challenge as a co...

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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John Zorn

One of the reasons I started ...

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.

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John Zorn

It breaks even. We lose ten, ...

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.

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John Zorn

As soon as you get a certain ...

As soon as you get a certain amount of attention, then everybody kinda wants to start taking pot shots at you. All your old friends that supported you don't support you any more.

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John Zorn

I have wit in my work and a s...

I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

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John Zorn

It's a blast to watch. It's a...

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.

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John Zorn

The magic that you find in su...

The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

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John Zorn

Like you have seven people wi...

Like you have seven people with their hands up. I gotta make a choice. Y'know, that's tough. Sometimes I gotta go with someone that has an idea and make several calls in a row, because they got an idea.

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John Zorn

I run around, I listen to a l...

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

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John Zorn

I started the label Tzadik to...

I started the label Tzadik to support an entire community of musicians, not just Jewish musicians. But the radical Jewish culture movement was begun in a lot of ways because I wanted to take the idea that Jewish music equals 'klezmer' and expand it to, 'Well, Jewish music could be a lot more than that.'

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John Zorn

Anything that gets in the way...

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.

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John Zorn

I have about two or three peo...

I have about two or three people, we don't have an office, we don't even have a dedicated phone line. We do it out of our own homes, and we make it work.

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John Zorn

I used to look at composing m...

I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.

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John Zorn

I have not practiced saxophon...

I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.

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John Zorn

That is a lot of the reason I...

That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information and turn people onto different things they may not be, y'know, aware of. That is what Naked City is certainly about.

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John Zorn

I'm not striving for happines...

I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.

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John Zorn

I create work, and I devote m...

I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to, you know, stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive.

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John Zorn

I'm constantly tortured, and ...

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

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