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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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"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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Donna Grant

"Fun is never gone because life is fun."

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Donna Grant

"Kids cannot follow stories. They don't know what the hell is going on in a cartoon. They like to see funny visual things happening."

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Donna Grant

"The Britney Spears movie was just fun and light, but let's talk about that in a few months."

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Donna Grant

"Fun? There is no fun."

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Donna Grant

"Frozen yogurt is tastier than ice cream; nobody is too old for cartoons; bald men are sexy; chocolate is the best medicine; BIG books are better; cats secretly rule the planet; and everything should be available in the color pink, including monster trucks."

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Donna Grant

"There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it."

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Donna Grant

"Excuse me, I must go and putt."

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Donna Grant

"This was more of a cartoonish thing for me and it kind of took me back to SCTV, in a way, where the characters are just a little broader and you can have that kind of fun going a little over the edge."

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Donna Grant

"So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun."

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Donna Grant

"A buddy will keep you honest and add a dimension of fun to your workout."

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

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Ikue Mori
"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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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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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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