Ikue Mori Quotes

• 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.

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  Inspiration, Book, Ideas

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• I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

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  Dark, Mind, Stories

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Play, Buttons

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• 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.

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  New York, Interesting, Tokyo

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• Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

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  Momentum, Improvising

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

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  Rocks, Long, Band

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

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  Years, Practice, Five

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• 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.

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  Fun, Thinking, Play

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• With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

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  Rocks, Play, Band

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• I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.

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  Japan, Musician, Left

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• I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.

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  Tired, Sound, Different

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• 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.

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  Art, Thinking, Lunch

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• Blood and death. That moves me.

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  Moving, Blood

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• 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.

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  Girl, New York, Sunset

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• I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

  Ikue Mori

  Done, Film, Enjoy

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