"One thing that I do ask myself when I'm in the creative process is, 'Does the world need this?'"

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Source : "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 3, 2013.

John Zorn

#Creative Quotes #Doe Quotes #Needs Quotes

“Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.”

Source : Walter Kirn (1993). “She Needed Me”
“Societies can be sunk by the weight of buried ugliness.”
“Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.”
“Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing”
“If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.”
“The purpose of paragraphing is to give the reader a rest. The writer is saying . . . : Have you got that? If so, I'll go to the next point.”
“Black people beating whites when a thug got shot holding a gun by a black officer haha (expletive) cracks me up! Keep kneeling for the anthem!”
“Playing Chelsea is as tough a test as you'll get in Europe these days.”

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