Repetition Quotes

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

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

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom.

I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

Like I said, repetition in practice and hard work.

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

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.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

I tell a student that the most important class you can take is technique. A great chef is first a great technician. 'If you are a jeweler, or a surgeon or a cook, you have to know the trade in your hand. You have to learn the process. You learn it through endless repetition until it belongs to you.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

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.

The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Constant repetition carries conviction.

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

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.

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.

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