Quotes About Repetition

You can't avoid being an egotistical person and ultimately somewhat narcissistic. You can try to curb it by recognizing that behavior. But at the same time, your repetitive behavior has its own psychology, and it's impossible to get out of that.

In a way, 'Sin City's designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.

When you, like if you sing a song and it gets into your brain that it becomes, it repeats and repeats like an affirmation so I find that quite empowering and quite important to keep my positive attitude to life.

What song have you played 10,000 times? It's probably not something basic. It's probably a song that validates your experience on Earth.

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.

We're playing the same songs, the same way, that we have for years.

After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.

There are phrases that are totally cliche that we, as songwriters, owe it to ourselves to not use again.

I'm getting bored performing the same songs over and over. Songwriting comes and goes.

The rule of songwriting: say what you want to say, say it again, say it a different way, then say it again.

When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.

The element of truth in the concept of genius is to be sought in the object, in what is open, not confined by repetition.

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

As far as how I expressed 'practice, practice, practice' over and over again, I wouldn't take that back because, obviously, that sound bite is great for the media and for the fans, because they love it.

American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.

I'm sick to death of people saying we've made 11 albums that sounds exactly the same, Infact, we've made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.

I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.

I don't really want to be doing high budget, where they've got cranes and everything. That just sounds boring, having to do the same thing over and over again.

By repeating sounds over and over again, I lose sense of time, space, and ego, and I get to just vibrate.

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.

If you have an anecdote from one source, you file it away. If you hear it again, it may be true. Then the more times you hear it the less likely it is to be true.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

I don't know if this happens in all relationships, but I just got so sick of his all too familiar stories. I had heard these stories so many times that I could have recited them myself.