Ikue Quotes

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

Ikue Mori

#2. The infernal storm, eternal in its rage, sweeps and drives the spirits with its blast; it whirls them, lashing them with punishment. When they are swept back past their place of judgment then come the shrieks, laments, and anguished cries; there they blaspheme God's almighty power.

Dante Alighieri

#3. 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

#4. We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again."
"This," Gansey replied "is precisely why I didn't want to have a baby with you.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

Ikue Mori

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

Ikue Mori

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

Ikue Mori

#8. I've tried not to get sucked into the Hollywood hierarchy system. Personally, I don't like it when people are deferential to me because I'm an established filmmaker. It's a blue-collar sensibility.

James Cameron

#9. 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

#10. Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

Katrina Kenison

#11. Codependents: don't trust themselves. don't trust their feelings. don't trust their decisions. don't trust other people. try to trust untrustworthy people.

Melody Beattie

#12. My biggest achievement is that I can make a lot of people smile just by my presence, even if it's a Lux ad.

Shahrukh Khan

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

Ikue Mori

#14. star-topped wand!

Daisy Meadows

#15. 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

#16. Improvising things is always changing. A lot of momentum.

Ikue Mori

#17. I'm interested in stories and the dark side of peoples' minds.

Ikue Mori

#18. The broader we cast our net, the deeper we wind up owning our own thoughts.

Peter Enns

#19. Blood and death. That moves me.

Ikue Mori

#20. 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

#21. That's like one of the things - you know, being a writer, it's not just like they're constantly like giving you jobs and shows. There was some lean years, man, and - well, a lean year and a half. 'Woe is me.' Right?

Diane Ruggiero

#22. Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Doug Collins

#23. 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

#24. Men love pleasure, but women wish for purposeful promise.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. 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

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

Ikue Mori

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over.

Ikue Mori

#30. Network Spinal Analysis represents the epitome of body work; it is at the leading of body/mind/spirit integration. This work will transform the planet.

Candace Pert