Glenn Kotche famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Firsts #Drummer #Obsessed
I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Trying #Bed #Laying Down
I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.
-- Glenn Kotche

#People #Legacy #Worried
I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Rocks #Sides #Academic
I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Teaching #School #Thinking
I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in more of a modernized version - and Explorer Series stuff, which is completely undiluted indigenous folk music. That's a lot more powerful than a lot of the super-processed stuff that comes out now.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Powerful #Differences #Fusion
As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Player #Rocks #Typical
I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the drummer in Wilco or as a composer who composes primarily for rhythmic reasons - it doesn't matter to me as long as they dig the music. None of that matters to me if the music is crap.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Views #Long #People
I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something as audacious as a solo percussion record with solo drumming music on it. There better be a reason behind it.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Records #Drumming #Reason
I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.
-- Glenn Kotche

#People #Needs #Looks
One of the greatest learning experiences I had was hanging out with Maureen Tucker from the Velvet Underground. There's a woman who has no training and has a very simplistic and very tribal drumming style. I don't even know that she can even do a drum roll, but she's probably my favorite rock drummer because she plays every note perfect.
-- Glenn Kotche

#Rocks #Play #Perfect

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