Terry Riley quotes
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.”
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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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“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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“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 RileySource : Interview with Gamall Awad and Ammon Haggerty, www.qaswa.com. October 9, 1992.
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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.”
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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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“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.”
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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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