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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Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
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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 always anxious in introducing sounds that don't originate with the cello.
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When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
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Every disease is a musical problem; every cure is a musical solution.
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I wrote my second novel, 'A Little Life,' in what I still think of as a fever dream: For 18 months, I was unable to properly concentrate on anything else.
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You can never be happy until you understand why you're doing what you're doing.
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To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.
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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.
