33 Quotes by Ikue Mori

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

That was the most I could pull out from these three drum machines with sound and texture and orchestrations- that's what I'm trying to do.