Quotes About Repetition

There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

Acting is easier than skating in ia way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.

Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

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.

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!

Day in, day out. That same old voodoo follows me about.

Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

Most things in music go full circle eventually.

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature.

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving.

The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end.

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.

Drive away what springs from nature; it returns at a gallop.