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 each other...

— Steve Reich

...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.

— Steve Reich