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Terry Riley

"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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"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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"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

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"Having a job is being busy."

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"CA means Chakra of Ambitions. I am a Chartered Accountant."

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"CA means Charismatic Amalgamation of great experiences of life. I am a Chartered Accountant."

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"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."

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"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

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"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing."

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"Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them."

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"Although I've had several major career changes, I was extremely hesitant about making some of them."

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"What I wanted more than anything was a long career."

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Terry Riley
"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."

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Terry Riley
"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."

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Terry Riley
"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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Terry Riley
"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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Terry Riley
"Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control."

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Terry Riley
"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."

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Terry Riley
"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."

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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."

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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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Terry Riley
"Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics."

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