Jeffrey Deitch Quotes

The world is full of sounds. We just don't usually hear them as music.

I was in Rome this time for about three or four months, and I feel like, by the time I left, every single person in Rome had seen me at least 10 times riding my bicycle. When I first got there, it seemed like people were happy to see me and would say hello. And by the end, they were kind of bored of seeing me. And it was like, "Ugh, there he goes again".

I feel like I'm always fighting not to repeat myself.

You might have a favorite book or film, but you can only watch or read it so many times before you have to let it sit and then go back and realize it's your favorite still. At some point everything gets a little stale and you have to step away from it.

The play is always fresh to me. It's not the audience's fault that I've said the words before.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

I think there's something strangely musical about noise.

The idea of doing something that you've seen a thousand times before doesn't appeal to me.

I'm not particularly good at doodling. I'll doodle the same face over and over again.

I've been here for 19 years, so West Ham fans are bored with seeing me. It's like my wife, who changes the wallpaper every three years because she gets tired of it.

I have always been interested in incorporating real places into the music I make. Bringing the outside into the controlled world of recorded sound just gives life and physicality.

If the audience gets to see anything in abundance, they lose interest.

When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

Constant repetition dulls receptivity.

Don’t repeat yourself. It’s not only repetitive, it’s redundant, and people have heard it before.

Why did becoming accustomed to something have to render its pleasures stale.

I find sometimes that if you do too many takes, it starts to become meaningless to me. It is hard to sustain it for me. I don't want to do too many.

I think the people are just looking for freedom in music...There's a lot of she-bop she-bop going on out there. Maybe they're tired of that same old thing.

I think any songwriter or record, no matter how good it is, can become tedious if it's the same person's point of view. After four tracks, you start to get worn down no matter how good it is. It can be relentlessly good, but it's still going to wear you out.

I don't see the point of being an actor and doing the same thing, all the time. Where's the challenge there?

If you pass something every day and it has a little character, it begins to intrigue you.

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are built up as positive experiences.

I don't need to be told the same thing every day, every morning, same words.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.