Quotes by Ikue Mori - Page 1

Blood and death. That moves me.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Blood
Moving
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Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Improvising
Momentum
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Japan
Left
Musician
Intend
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Done
Enjoy
Film
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I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Dark
Dark Side
Mind
Stories
Dark Side Dark Side
Minds
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With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Band
Play
Rocks
Rock Band
Same Things
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Band
Long
Rock Bands
Rocks
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Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Drum
Mechanical
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I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Different
Effects
Manipulation
Sound
Tired
Drum
Sounds
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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.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Five
Practice
Touched
Years
Drums
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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.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Fun
Play
Thinking
You Can Do It
Important Thing
Main Thing
Most Important Thing
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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 / Composer
Dance Music
Repetition
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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 / Composer
Program
Programming
Drum
Project
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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.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Alive
Buttons
Instruments
Interactive
Manipulation
Play
Pushing
Sound
Thinking
Goes
Plays
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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 / Composer
Book
Bottom
Bottom Line
Ideas
Inspiration
Painting
Visual
Compose
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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.
Ikue Mori / Composer
New York
Interesting
Tokyo
Happening
Intend
Seemed
Visit
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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.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Girl
New York
Bass
Chorus
Clubs
Records
Sunset
Drums
John
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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.
Ikue Mori / Composer
Art
Chance
Energy
Funk
Jazz
Lunch
Mars
Sound
Thinking
Art Great Music
Original
Art Music Great
Commercial
Different Way
James
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