John Zorn Quotes

Once you get older, you get a little closer to yourself, intimate.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

It's a beautiful thing at 60 to know who you are.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

The older one gets the more one comes to resemble oneself.

The older you are, I think you realize what you enjoy and what you don't need, what wears you out and what's important.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

I think I've just matured over the years.

With each year I experience, I become more relaxed. I know now what is important to listen to and what to ignore. You only get that with age.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.

You get clarity as you get sober, and you get clarity as you get older.

I'm far more comfortable in my 40s than I ever was.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

Evolving into a middle-aged person is quite interesting if we can understand what it means. I would like to think it meant being a bit sure of what I want.

I'm never so sure as I was in my mid-20s.

I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

By the age of fifty, you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.