If you're not moved by music, everything else fades away. You don't care about the text, you don't care about how it's done, and you don't care about interviewing the composer and all that," says Steve Reich. In an interview, Reich was asked about the importance of understanding versus the emotion that he was trying to evoke. I believe this statement clearly states his position on music and composition. Reich's philosophy is based on the fact that his purpose for music is to move you; that both the musician and his music become irrelevant if not they make a statement, if not they cause some kind of mental/aural stimulation. Steve Reich's philosophy is also defined by the gradual processes of the music complex of compositions, musical processes should be gradual. This goes back to Reich's early thought that meaningful music arises from its ability to move you. Music must be listened to and understood to be felt. A gradual process “sustains attention” as perceived by Reich. “Music should consist of a compositional process and sound music which are the same thing” and “structural devices should be open, rather than hidden”. I believe these statements by Steve Reich about music reveal that for one's music to be fully appreciated and for the musician to be taken seriously and to make impersonal contact, the composer must strive to appeal to the audience on a completely different level. One of which arouses emotion and interpretation of the