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.

  

  Wayne Coyne
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• Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.

  

  Iggy Pop
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  • Author
  • Musical

• Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.

  

  Sam Tsui
  • Love
  • Theater
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• I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
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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.

  

  Beck
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Exist

• I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • Me
  • Like
  • More

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Like
  • Wonderful
  • Interested

• I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Loved
  • Show
  • Musical

• I've always loved that film 'The Three Caballeros', and we were looking for a way to apply it to our own work, and 'Trolls' was it - psychedelic, musical and kinetic insanity.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Work
  • Film
  • Loved

• 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.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Mean
  • Body
  • Introducing

• The musical performances do more than enrich the movie; they complete it.

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Movie
  • Musical
  • Performances

• Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.

  

  Eliza Haywood
  • Virtues
  • Repetition
  • Possest

• 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.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Inspiration
  • Lyrics
  • Melody

• 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.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Home
  • Nature

• We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.

  

  Pir Vilayat Khan
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Liberty

• 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.

  

  Virginia Graham
  • People
  • Done
  • Moments

• You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.

  

  William P. Young
  • Beautiful
  • Mess
  • Melody

• Wherever it came from, the musical came with its hair mussed and with an innocent, indolent, irreverent look on its bright, bland face.

  

  Walter Kerr
  • Hair
  • Innocent
  • Musical

• Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.

  

  William Christopher Handy
  • World
  • Mind
  • Fall

• The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Silence
  • Escape
  • Melody

• My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.

  

  Zach Anner
  • True
  • Best
  • Rest

• I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Smile
  • News
  • Report

• Some of my fondest and most impressionable movie memories are from those early sci-fi and horror films. I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid.

  

  Ray Wise
  • Memories
  • Horror
  • Vampire

• 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.

  

  Terrence Mitchell Riley
  • Musical
  • Melody
  • Repetition