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"Once Miramax gets involved, if they like your movie, there's a big machine that gets involved."
"I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly."
"I was playing with the Aquabats, and then I quit to join a band called Suicide Machine in Detroit."
"The whole publicity machine is a very weird one. It's kind of a necessary part of what we do here, but this helps me keep grounded."
"Machines take me by surprise with great frequency."
"One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion."
"It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else."
"Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine."
"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."
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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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 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."
"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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