Ikue Mori Quotes & Sayings

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

“Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.”

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

“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.”

“Blood and death. That moves me.”

“Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”