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 -
Musical types tend to combine the burden of the author with the burden of the actor.
Iggy Pop -
Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
Sam Tsui -
I'd like to do a play, and I'd like to do a musical.
Taron Egerton -
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 -
I like Rufus Wainwright a whole lot. He makes me wanna be even more musical.
Edie Brickell
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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.
Damien Chazelle -
I did a musical when I was 17, an amateur show, and I loved it.
Taron Egerton -
Those possest of the greatest Virtues are always least pleas'd with the repetition of them.
Eliza Haywood -
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 -
We first have to find the way of freedom from involvement before we can introduce freedom in involvement.
Pir Vilayat Khan -
You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.
William P. Young
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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.
Walter Kerr -
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
William Christopher Handy -
When they saw you kneeling, crying words you mean. Opening their eyeballs, eyeballs, pretending that your Al Green, Al Green.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
You have to create space to pull back and keep it musical.
Jay Weinberg Against Me! -
Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
Folk music usually has an emphasis on the lyrics and melody. And those lyrics are usually relevant in some way. And it's populist in scope, which is also true of Bad Religion. So it's more meant to draw some parallels between the two. And I think even my voice and my delivery can be thought of as a little bit folky.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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A radical thinker on a musical level.
D-Nice Boogie Down Productions -
For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.
Hannah Arendt -
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