Terrence Mitchell Riley (Terry Riley) Quotes
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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There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.
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Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.
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Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.
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I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
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It was only through getting interested in more out-there and avant-garde forms that the musical suddenly seemed like such a wonderful genre to me.
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I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
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Let me introduce the word 'hypertext' to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper.
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The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.
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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
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You always know when a real inspiration is behind the melody, arrangements, even lyrics. And I know that's really vague, but it's true.
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It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at home with nature and the infinite.
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We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
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It is not done to let anybody be too happy. The moment two people seem to be enjoying one another's company, a good hostess introduces a third element or removes the first.
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You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.
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Wherever it came from, the musical came with its hair mussed and with an innocent, indolent, irreverent look on its bright, bland face.
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Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
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I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old.
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Until Eleanor Roosevelt, there was only one or two First Ladies in all of American history who made an impact, who people could even have recognized or identified. And it's really only been since Jackie Kennedy that there's been this idea that the family life of the president is such a central thing.
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That three-foot putt is tough for me right now! I'm not making too many putts.
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The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'
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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.
