Repetitive Music Quotes

When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.

I like Philip Glass. I think he's made some really great contributions to his field. I love his style of playing - it's very loop-style.

Thank God for YouTube. Every Thanksgiving, I'm bombarded with 'Turkey Lurkey Time.'

Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.

Especially in repetitive music, to make a long piece of music you have to be extremely skilled in your sleight of hand. Just to make long form music it's very difficult and you really have to consider what you're putting someone through.

I've been called a minimalist composer for more than 30 years, and while I've never really agreed with the description, I've gotten used to it.

Music that is considered minimalism - or post-minimalism music in general - things of that nature or that come from that tradition, or even drone, or non-western music, have a more subtle and more open-ended verticality to them that allows for your own mind and body to be involved.

When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

All the big loud housey songs came from the idea of 'I want to create the same song over and over again.' Except that I've created each one in a different location, or a different mindset.

When I'm skiing, I listen to electronic music. It's repetitive and let's me get into a groove and crank out the miles.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.

A friend of mine gave me a Philip Glass record. I listened to it for five hours before I realized it had a scratch on it.

What I try to steer my kids away from is any time there's a pattern, and you can slap any other track on that track, and it would still work.

I love Philip Glass' work, not only as a film composer but also as a musician. The film score work that he does always amazes and shocks me.

It seems like a lot of music today is so churned out and simple.

When you hear the first five seconds to a song and you've pretty much heard the whole song, that's kind of a bummer.

Pop music is always great for keeping the energy up, but it can get really old, especially after eight hours, just because there aren't that many great pop songs.

I just think that a metal band covering a bunch of metal songs is so boring, so 'done before.'

You listen to the radio and all the songs sound the same, from 8 in the morning to 12.

Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That 'Playhouse 90' theme music was an example.

If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.