"I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say……" — John Zorn
"I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies."
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39 Quotes by John Zorn
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Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just…
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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…
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The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive
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You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy
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I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way
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Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away…
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That is a lot of the reason I do what I do, to really spread the word and spread information…
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If you can make art with sound, can't you make music with objects?
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I’m constantly in doubt about what I’m doing, I’m constantly tortured, and that’s why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness…
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It's a matter of keeping people on a spontaneous edge.
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I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.
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Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.
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More Children Quotes
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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
— Aristotle
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
— Aristotle
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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