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.
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… - 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…
- 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… - 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…
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 i… - 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 i…
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 Sym… - 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 Sym…
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 In… - 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 In…
It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution… - Terry Riley
It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution…
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them … - Terry Riley
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them …
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just r… - Terry Riley
Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just r…
The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place yo… - Terry Riley
The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place yo…
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