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.

Terrence Mitchell Riley

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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
  • Musical

• I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Play
  • Like
  • Musical

• 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
  • Melody
  • Mess

• 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

• I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very nature of things.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nature
  • Career
  • Know

• Blake did what we needed him to do for us tonight. My nerves were a little shabby at the beginning of the game, but it's good to know that we have a guy that will go out and battle for us. He's going to give us a chance to win every time he takes the mound.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Good
  • Guy

• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Fall
  • Rock
  • Creature

• There are children with dreams counting on us.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Children
  • Dream
  • Counting

• 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