"I don't ascribe to the idea of the ivory tower composer who sits alone in a room composing his masterpieces and then comes down from Mount Sinai with the tablets. It doesn't work like that. The job of a composer is putting something down on a piece of paper that will inspire the person who's playing."

-- John Zorn

#Jobs Quotes #Ivory Tower Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.”
“It's amazing how if you turn up at a studio without an idea, a picture will take itself from momentum, and you quickly can lose control.”
“Only a few things are really important.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I expect the best and with God's help will attain the best.”
“It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everything your students need to know about philosophy communicated in a way that appeals to them, as well as inspire many of them to the study of philosophy.”
“If there is no God, there is no hope.”

Source : "The Boykin affair" by Mark Thompson, www.cnn.com. October 27, 2003.
“We are already ONE. We just think we are separate.”

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