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Ikue Mori

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

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

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"All truthful music is familiar to the ear, for its notes were written into our souls long ago."

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"Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt like going through the motions and if you are going to go through the motions you might as well just do any gig that caused you to do repetitive motions like banging a hammer or serving fries."

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Amber Hurdle

"Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music."

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"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days."

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"I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people."

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"The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano."

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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."
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"Blood and death. That moves me."
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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."
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"I got tired of different drum sounds so you buy different effects for more manipulation."
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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."
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"Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical."
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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."
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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."
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