Top 18 Quotes by Ikue Mori

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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