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 each other..."

"...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 same thing."

"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."