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You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience.

— Ned Rorem

Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way…

— Eleanor Catton

From this simple phenomenon, this idea of saying something twice, more often, as often as possible, in order to make oneself understood - the…

— Anton Webern

On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy…

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

“People assume that repetition is always a static thing, but I beg to differ. Repetition is just as often the complete opposite of that:…

— Criss Jami

Repetition is not repetition, ... The same action makes you feel something completely different by the end

— Pina Bausch

“There is nothing more difficult to master than repetition. If you do it badly, it's clumsy, stupid. When it's well done, it's like a…

— Laurence Cossé

There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery rhymes and…

— Oliver Sacks

I hate repetition, I really do. It's like asking a painter to paint the same picture every day of his life.

— Peter Cushing

There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when I say…

— DJ Spooky

Repetition is tolerable in the stutterer, but very irritating in other people.

— Mariana Fulger