Quotes About Steve Reich

#1. There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when I say repetitive it's in the same tradition as people like Steve Reich or Erik Satie or even WC.

DJ Spooky

#2. I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

Kate Fleetwood

#3. All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

Steve Reich

#4. Wikipedia says I have Antisocial Personality Disorder, which is dumb, because I'm all kids of social--I love society, society is like the ocean to my shark--and I have plenty of personality, and it's only a disorder if it messes up your life, and my life is awesome.

Harrison Geillor

#5. There are times when my father's absence is as heavy as a child sitting on my chest.

Hisham Matar

#6. I've learned over the years that geography is not that important, except that I seem to work better in the country than the city. I get more done. There's just less happening around me, and I have more time and concentration to work on music.

Steve Reich

#7. You may be singing 'Holy, holy, holy,' but if you aren't thinking about God while singing it, you are not worshiping.

Donald Whitney

#8. All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

Steve Reich

#9. I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

Steve Reich

#10. And I really haven't done a damn thing.

Pat Tillman

#11. Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

Steve Reich

#12. Fucking, drinking, smoking, loving, living, freebasing, spending, laughing, crying, working, falling apart, kissing, writing, blacking out.

Jardine Libaire

#13. Working with those versed in the Mystical Arts was sometimes like trying to knit with wet spaghetti: just when you thought you'd gotten somewhere, it all came to pieces in your hands.

Jasper Fforde

#14. True creativity is inherently destructive, and truly creative individuals always, without exception, seek to destroy the mediums they work within.

Douglas Haddow

#15. Jesus fucking shit cock sucking whore in a wicker basket

Jay McLean

#16. The road to home is when we find our hearts filled with the stories of our people.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#17. In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible ... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

Steve Reich

#18. Neither the chains of dictatorship nor the fetters of oppression can keep down the forces of freedom for long.

Angela Merkel

#19. The best way to deal with tiredness is to sleep it off.

Jarod Kintz

#20. There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

Bernard Crick

#21. I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.

Steve Reich

#22. I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

Steve Reich

#23. As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

Steve Reich

#24. What I don't want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City.

Steve Reich

#25. The democratic process will always favor small, well-organized groups at the expense of large, diffuse groups.

Charles Wheelan

#26. Innocence is something to be appreciated, to be understood, to be enjoyed. Like you see animals, they're innocent; you see children, they're innocent; flowers, they're innocent. Divert your attention to all these things.

Nirmala Srivastava