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Ikue Mori

"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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"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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Akiroq Brost

"Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls."

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"There are thousands of girls out there who could be doing my job."

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"I think it's great when girls are artistic."

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"Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading."

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"By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it."

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Akiroq Brost

"Now I know why guys like to hug girls. You guys just want to cop a feel. I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!"

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"I am treated no different than the other girls."

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"Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird."

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"Ilene Weiss and I went to Girls High together."

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"I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?'"

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Ikue Mori
"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."

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Ikue Mori
"Blood and death. That moves me."

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Ikue Mori
"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."

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

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Ikue Mori
"With a rock band, you play the same things over and over and over."

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Ikue Mori
"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."

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

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Ikue Mori
"Come to think of it, the way I play is like a drum machine- very mechanical."

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Ikue Mori
"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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Ikue Mori
"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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