Kotche Quotes

#1. I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

Glenn Kotche

#2. Make a better mousetrap and the world will know it; it can measure and applaud your skill. Make a better man and the world will say he did it himself.

Denham Sutcliffe

#3. As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.

Glenn Kotche

#4. I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the drummer in Wilco or as a composer who composes primarily for rhythmic reasons - it doesn't matter to me as long as they dig the music. None of that matters to me if the music is crap.

Glenn Kotche

#5. I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

Glenn Kotche

#6. We're all so preposterous, aren't we. Holding onto our traumas, our agonies, our small dramas and using them to sabotage that which we so want, and actually deserve. ' (Petra Dussman in 'The Moment')

Douglas Kennedy

#7. Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

Maria Montessori

#8. People should just be aware of how they are eating ... yesterday I had a McDonald's breakfast and pizza too - but that's bad.

Peaches Geldof

#9. The problem is the people who tend to be the best organized are the most radical and the most vicious.

Donald Rumsfeld

#10. I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something as audacious as a solo percussion record with solo drumming music on it. There better be a reason behind it.

Glenn Kotche

#11. I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.

Glenn Kotche

#12. I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to explain my thought process, having to think about stuff that I take for granted or as second nature.

Glenn Kotche

#13. I never really did any disco dancing.

Barry Gibb

#14. I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics.

Glenn Kotche

#15. But there is nothing men lie about so much as about their sexual life,...

W. Somerset Maugham

#16. In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians that you felt you were almost part of a meeting at a church or a temple, where everyone was completely in tune with the sermon and what the whole event was about.

David Amram