Creativity Quote by Ikue Mori

Boredom is doing a lot of work here, but not the cute, idle kind. Mori frames fatigue with “different drum sounds” as a creative problem that technology can solve, and that’s a quietly radical shift in what “drumming” means. Instead of chasing novelty by swapping instruments or perfecting technique, she treats sound as raw material: something you can bend, fracture, and reassemble through effects. The move from “different” to “manipulation” signals a desire for authorship at a deeper level, where the point isn’t variety but control.

The phrasing is casual, almost shruggy - “so you buy” - yet it smuggles in the economic reality of experimentation. Innovation, in this world, isn’t just inspiration; it’s gear, access, and the willingness to build a personal toolkit. That little consumer verb carries a whole ecosystem: studios, pedals, signal chains, late-night tinkering, the hunt for textures that feel new because they’re yours.

Context matters: Mori emerged from scenes that prized abrasion, improvisation, and refusing genre polish. Effects aren’t decoration; they’re an attitude, a way to push percussion beyond the familiar “hit” into a spectrum of noise, rhythm, and accident. The subtext is anti-tradition without needing to announce it: when the instrument starts to feel finite, you don’t quit - you mutate the definition of the instrument.