"Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities."

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Source : "At 60, 'Challenges Are Opportunities' For John Zorn". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, wbaa.org. September 3, 2013.

John Zorn

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I don't really remember, but from about the age of five I told anyone who would listen that I was going to be the best golfer in the world.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I feel like I leave every single project feeling like I didn't quite do as good as I wanted to do on it, and I have to just look forward to the next one to try and do better. Because you never quite hit the heights you have in your head for what you're going to do. But you learn something each time, which is important.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“It certainly is an embarrassing fact, then, for certain classical scholars to have to face, that the Platonic Academy continued to function in Athens for over nine hundred years.”
“I mean, we were hearing music all the way through the islands. You know, we, when we visit the islands, of course since the islands have been churches have come down, there's a church every two blocks. And so there's music in all these different denominations. So we said, music's gotta play a big part of this movie [Maona] to really capture the culture.”

Source : Source: www.slashfilm.com
“I always felt thrilled and amazed that I could put actor on my tax form.”
“Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.”

Source : Anna Sewell (2013). “Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse”, p.65, Lulu Press, Inc
“Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.”
“When Morrissey and I started The Smiths, we thought pop music was the most important thing in the world. It was almost a spiritual thing for us, and because of that, we knew what it meant to be a fan.”

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