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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Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.
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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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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.
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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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I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about.
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The reason I’m not more political is because I have music. And from a young age, I needed it. After prison, my father came to America, joined the Army, fought in Vietnam - and was exposed to Agent Orange. He died a slow, horrible death. Music was my escape.
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...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.
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My parents professed to believe in God, but I rarely heard his name mentioned unattached to 'damn' or 'sakes' or 'willing.
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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.
