John Zorn 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. – John Zorn Challenges Quotes Challenging Quotes Music Quotes Opportunities Quotes People Quotes Putting Quotes Situations Quotes Sounds Quotes 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.’ You can’t sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you’re doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there’s something going on here. And whether you want to call it channeling or being connected to a creative force or knowing your history and knowing where you belong, that’s, you know, maybe a personal thing.
Gemma Jones I don’t colour my hair, and I look like the back end of a bus, so I get asked to play old people. – Gemma Jones
Leo Durocher Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don’t even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death. – Leo Durocher
Jayson Tatum I dreamed of having big moments and having a big role. That obviously came a lot sooner than I thought. – Jayson Tatum
Joseph Addison An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. – Joseph Addison
Herschel Walker As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action. – Herschel Walker
John Battelle The ‘Occupy’ movement seems to have found a central theme to its 2012 movement around overturning ‘the corporation as a person,’ and some legislators are supporting that concept. – John Battelle
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