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.

- Steve Reich

I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it …

- Steve Reich

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 ot…

- Steve Reich

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 d…

- Steve Reich

in serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the sa…

- Steve Reich

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…

- Steve Reich

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 an…

- Steve Reich

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

- Steve Reich

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…

- Steve Reich