"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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Source : Steve Reich (2002). “Writings on Music, 1965-2000”, p.73, Oxford University Press

Steve Reich

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“I'm trying to see if I can speak about our society today, but I cannot speak about the theme, because it's a bit difficult. I'm just starting to work on that. Because we live in a kind of world which has drastically changed in the last years. We speak about globalization, and how it's become the reason for everything. It has a kind of deep meaning. To be everywhere and to be nowhere at the same time. You think to globalize, you think, the Earth, it's your country. No, it's not your country. It's not easy to catch it in a cinema. It's too huge.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“I think when you first get a job, you're just trying to do what the last regime did, just to keep it going, as opposed to actually doing what you want to do.”
“There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.”
“You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, You're just nice. I'm not good, I'm not nice, I'm just right. I'm the witch. You're the world.”
“The ideal woman to me would be the gun-toting moll. Someone who is true blue and ready to face the world. Open to ideas and suggestion, not stubborn and closed minded.”
“I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.”
“Generosity makes at least two people feel good.”
“I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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