Quotes by Steve Reich

Steve Reich

All great music is contemporary. If it’s still alive and kicking, then it’s contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

Alive

Kicking

Pieces

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it’s inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

Born

Doe

New York

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

Facts

Matter

Matter Of Fact

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.

Interesting

Made

Phases

I don’t care how much people understand what it is that I’m doing, except if they’re players in my ensemble or other ensembles. I just want people to be moved by the music. If you’re not moved by the music, then everything else falls away. You’re not interested in the text, you’re not interested in how it was done, and you’re not interested in interviewing the composer and all the rest of it.

Fall

People

Player

It’s very important for any artist, in any field, to take their own temperature and check out their own energy, and see what it is they ought to be doing to keep the energy up. Because if your energy is not up, you’re going to come up with some really dreary piece of work that no one’s going to enjoy.

Artist

Fields

Important

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

Age

Jazz

Real

What I don’t want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City.

Cities

Exotic

New York

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Quotes by Steve Reich

Steve Reich

All great music is contemporary. If it’s still alive and kicking, then it’s contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.

All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it’s inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.

As a matter of fact, I personally would much rather hear Perotin than Mozart.

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.

What I don’t want to do is to go and buy a bunch of exotic-looking drums and set up an Afrikanische Musik in New York City.

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