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… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
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… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns,… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
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… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it! — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
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… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and… — Terry Riley Copy Share Image
