Before I Met Him Quotes by Terry Riley

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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…
• It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!
• Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just…
• I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good…
• We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of…
• The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book.
• Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.
• I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long…
• Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take…
• Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of…
• Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.
• I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.

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