I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the drummer in Wilco or as a composer wh…

- Glenn Kotche

I was teaching drum lessons at a few high schools - everything from marching to classical to rock and jazz. I found that really rewarding, having to …

- Glenn Kotche

I hope that people don't need to look at the liner notes to be affected by the music.

- Glenn Kotche

One of the greatest learning experiences I had was hanging out with Maureen Tucker from the Velvet Underground. There's a woman who has no training a…

- Glenn Kotche

I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something as audacious as a solo percu…

- Glenn Kotche

I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate somethi…

- Glenn Kotche

As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are n…

- Glenn Kotche

I've been doing the academic side of music and the rock side of music in conjunction, basically, since I was in fourth grade.

- Glenn Kotche

I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in more of a modernized versio…

- Glenn Kotche