Roger Allam

But one of the satisfying things about performing a play is you know for that piece of time exactly what you're going to be doing. Your life has a physical pattern. There's something about the odd, repetitious nature of it that I find hugely relaxing. All the problems of life are taken care of for that bit of time.

English Actor

Patti Smith

The reason we did 'Land of a Thousand Dances' and 'Gloria' on 'Horses' was because I liked repetitious, three-chord rock songs, but I didn't understand that I could write my own. I didn't realize that you could use those chords a million times.

American Musician

Ravi Shankar

My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.

Indian Musician

Phil Anselmo

The lead guitar work is a bit repetitious, but when a song is under two minutes long, I don't have much room anyway. Thank goodness. But I've always contributed guitar parts to every band I've ever been in, so I'll always play the axe.

Rudy Vallee

Composers now just don't have the depth of inspiration for melody. Most of the lyrics of the pop songs you hear today are repetitious. They're almost nursery rhymes, as if written by children - which they are.

Nadine Velazquez

When you're rehearsing, you get really inspired in the beginning, but then it becomes repetitious and you lose the magic. How do you get the magic again? The magic happens when you're not pushing it.

American Actress

Rick Rubin

I really loved crunk. I loved the extreme nature of it, how repetitious it was, and how these basic, angry chants would just be repeated over and over again.

American Businessman

Fiona Shaw

I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.

Irish Actress

Darrell Royal

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

American Coach

Alfred North Whitehead

Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe.

English Mathematician

Using 'repetitious' can hint at boredom or lack of creativity; it's often negative in context.

Variety Preferred

'Repetitious' is used to point out unnecessary repetition that doesn't add value or meaning.

Spotting Redundancy

Describing something as 'repetitious' often expresses annoyance or frustration with the repetition.