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… — 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, musical patterns. — 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
