Sol LeWitt had a huge INFLUENCE on my work because of his use of REPETITION and his CLARITY, setting up a system and letting that system go. That's kind of where the text paintings CAME from.

I want to FOCUS on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't CONSIDER every possible variation of a scene. I come from a THEATER background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.

For me, REPETITION is DEATH.

I love football. A lot. It's never a MOMENT to SAY that I'm BORED. There is a lot of repetition in football, in training and travel, but I still love it.

The inconvenience, the glaring LIGHTS, the long hours of waiting, and the repetition of EVERY scene are all calculated to DEFEAT anything more than a REAL mastery of love technique.

I ALWAYS talk about shooting being BROKEN down into THREE things. You have to have some semblance of good form. The second part is repetition: doing things over and over again until you really develop a skillset. And then the THIRD part is CONFIDENCE. But for me, you can't have confidence without having that second part.

If someone said, 'You can go live in this little TOWN in Costa Rica for a COUPLE of weeks and all you've got to do is sing for us,' I would do that. That's more exciting to me than the prospect of going on some national tour, where you're going to PLAY arenas or sheds every night, because of the crushing REPETITION of that kind of line.

Repetition every DAY. That's something the GREAT ONES do is never GET complacent.

The early Stones were adolescent rockers. They were SELF-CONSCIOUS in an obvious and unpretentious way. And they were committed to a musical style that needed no justification because it came so NATURALLY to them. As they grew MUSICALLY the mere repetition of OLD ROCK and blues tunes became increasingly less satisfying.

There's so MANY ways you can play one chord progression that the REPETITION isn't EVER EXACTLY the same.

But the development of human society does not GO straight FORWARD; and the EPIC process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in EXACT REPETITION.

A LONG time ago, I watched President Reagan repeat a few SIMPLE points about the benefits for everyone of lower taxes, light regulations, and limited GOVERNMENT. Successful policies are SOLD by REPETITION, not unrelated tangents.

I THINK REPETITION is the hardest thing to avoid with sequels, because you've told a STORY and now you're adding more story to the story.

The WHOLE musical institution of the church involves a LOT of different styles of communication at the same time. THINGS like call and RESPONSE. Sometimes they use the music to pray and work things out. And there's so much repetition in gospel, it's like churning butter.