Quotes by Terry Riley - Page 1

Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.
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Acceleration
Finite
Physics
According
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Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.
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Law
Physics
Thinking
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It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!
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Deals
Matter
What Matters
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Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.
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Accelerate
Kind
Seems
Mode
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The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
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Book
Incredibles
Mind
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I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.
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Indian
Indian Music
Met
Studying
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We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
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Break Through
Race
Understanding
Dissolve
Human Being
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I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.
Terry Riley / Composer
Air
Careers
Long
Rainbow
Cbs
Dropped
Long Career
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Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60's with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.
Terry Riley / Composer
All Night
Concerts
Delay
Night
Saxophone
Talking
Delays
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I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.
Terry Riley / Composer
Technology
Dancer
Equipment
Funky
Loops
Primitive
Tape
Dancers
How Much
How Much Money
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Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.
Terry Riley / Composer
Break
Evening
Saxophone
Delays
Concert
Recording
Throughout
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Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Terry Riley / Composer
Contribution
Gdp
Melody
Musical
Over It
Patterns
Western
Western Music
Essentially
Ingredient
Introduce
Main
Repeated
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So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Terry Riley / Composer
Contribution
Melody
Musical
Over It
Patterns
Western
Essentially
Ingredient
Introduce
Main
Repeated
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It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking.
Terry Riley / Composer
Development
Dissolution
Important
Moving
Thinking
Towards
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The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.
Terry Riley / Composer
Music
Best Place
Desire
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It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.
Terry Riley / Composer
Acceleration
Billions
Contact
Feelings
Important
Millennium
People
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I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.
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Fun
Play
Writing
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Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound.
Terry Riley / Composer
Abstract
Decided
Experimentation
Fabric
Fragments
Musician
Play
Repetition
Sound
Musicians
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Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
Terry Riley / Composer
Eating
Oneness
Pleasure
Real
Sensual
Sex
Spiritual
Understanding
Rarely
Taking
Vibration
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I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.
Terry Riley / Composer
Hours
Long
Long Time
Patterns
Play
Stopping
Tired
Time Long Long Time
Time Tired Long
Hours And Hours
Plan
Really Long Time
Repeated
Seem
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The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.
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Intuition
Player
Writing
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Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.
Terry Riley / Composer
Patterns
Pieces
Prominence
Simple
Structure
Village
Time Music New
Came
Global
Guess
Piece
Villages
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