Ikue Mori famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

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

#Rocks #Long #Band
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

#Book #Inspiration #Ideas
So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
-- Ikue Mori

#Years #Practice
I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
-- Ikue Mori

#Dark #Mind #Stories
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

#Thinking #Play #Buttons
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

#New York #Interesting #Tokyo
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

#Fun #Thinking #Play
With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
-- Ikue Mori

#Rocks #Play #Band
I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
-- Ikue Mori

#Japan #Musician
I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
-- Ikue Mori

#Tired #Sound #Different
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

#Art #Thinking #Lunch
Blood and death. That moves me.
-- Ikue Mori

#Moving #Blood
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

#Girl #New York #Sunset
I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
-- Ikue Mori

#Done #Film #Enjoy

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