The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.

The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition.

I always try to be alert to the potential for repetition, for a decaying orbit with regard to my use of technique, etc.

Filming is repetition and many takes.

You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

When I did that first movie, it was the introduction to all the set-up time and the waiting time that's endemic in motion pictures, and the repetition.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

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.

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.