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Terry Riley

"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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"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 can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

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"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."

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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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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
"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
"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."

Music

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Terry Riley
"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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Terry Riley
"I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him."

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

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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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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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