Pastoral Resources

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

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.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

We are a country of excess. So it's not the violence, per se, but the exacerbation and constant repetition.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

The inconvenience, the glaring lights, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of every scene are all calculated to defeat anything more than a real mastery of love technique.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

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.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.