Artistic Repetition Quotes

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

Sometimes you get bored of the same moves, but you know that there are those moves that those fans love.

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.

I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?

If these poems repeat themselves, then so does Spring.

If I talk to a new guy, it's because the old guy bores me, and I already wrote a bunch of songs about him.

An author writes a book, and that's the book at that point. And if the author writes the book again, then somehow something has gone wrong, if you see what I mean.

With AC/DC, we've always started with rock, and we've just kept it going. The critic's view is always, 'They just made an album and it's the same as the last one.' I'll have fifteen of them, anytime.

Once I finish one album I know where to begin again.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

I don't want another 'It Wasn't Me.' I've been asked that question so many times. Do I want a song of that magnitude? Great, always, but not the same type of music.

I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.

The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable, eagerly welcomed, and readily salable designs.

How many impressionist painters painted the same damned thing? How many actors have played the same part in renditions of a play or dancers do the same dances.

A lot of fashion photographers will do the same sort of image for many years; it's easier to be successful if you do that.

A lot of artists who have a certain style are expected to more or less keep doing their style. It's so easy to get into that rut of production.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

I've always looked at famous actors and hope that once they get a part that they have success in, they would reprise it every few years in the way a pop singer will reprise their hits. Like Bob Dylan singing 'Blowin' in the Wind' until he's fed up with it, finding different ways of doing it.

When I look at the directors that I really love, who really develop their films over time, they're almost always the ones who go back again and again and again at the same investigations. I think that when somebody has a theme they go after, it's fun to service that. It's like, "I know you now. I know what you go at." It helps you locate yourself a little bit quicker in their world.

In Hollywood, you tend to get pigeonholed to certain genres, and then when you try to do something different, it's not always so easy. Obviously, you don't want to keep repeating yourself, all the time. So, it's a constant struggle for every filmmaker and actor to find something that you can really feel passionate about. It's a profession like anything else.

I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

I think most musicians know if they make the same record twice, even if they say they don't.