Ikue Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums. — Ikue Mori

I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan. — Ikue Mori

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

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

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

I'd find myself more interesting if I weren't with me all the time. — Dov Davidoff

Blood and death. That moves me. — Ikue Mori

I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds. — Ikue Mori

dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally Socrates and his friends analyzed a topic, something always eluded them. — Karen Armstrong

Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical. — Ikue Mori

I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies. — Aisha Mirza

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

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job. — Gene Hackman

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it. — Ikue Mori

With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over. — Ikue Mori

I got to go to New York Comic-Con. I've never been and I've heard it's crazy, so I'd love to see it. To be quite honest, I'd like for people to want us to be there, too. I'm hoping. I'm knocking on wood, so we'll see. — Steven Yeun

I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation. — Ikue Mori

I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long. — Ikue Mori

Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum. — Ikue Mori

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable. — Alex Pareene

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