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

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 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

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

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

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

In the pop world, instead of saying I want to get an album by such and such a group, it's I like this particular tune and that one I like less. I thi…

- 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

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to ha…

- Steve Reich