Ikue Mori Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Ikue Mori Quotes and Sayings


  • 1
    Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 2
    Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 3
    Blood and death. That moves me. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 4
    Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 5
    I always wanted to get out of Tokyo and in 1977, New York seemed like the most interesting place to visit. I didn't intend to live here- I just wanted to get out and see what was happening. I just happened to stay here then. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 6
    I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 7
    I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 8
    I still think that I'm playing instruments, not just pushing buttons and there it goes. It's interactive and alive with the sound and the manipulation and it plays like instruments. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 9
    I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 10
    I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 11
    I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 12
    Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 13
    Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 14
    So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 15
    Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 16
    The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 17
    The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF
  • 18
    With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over. Ikue Mori | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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