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Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  Think , I Think , Some , Physics


I had already done Rainbow in Curved Air and had a big record on CBS. I was launched to have a long career and then I just dropped out and went to India.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  Long , Done , India , Rainbow


Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  Music , Time , New , Simple


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.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  Music , Anything , Without , Contribution


We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  New , Race , Understanding , Human Being


Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  Time , Everyone , Own , Control


I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  Music , Him , Studying , Started


I really didn't have a plan, I just went in and started playing. one of my specialties was to be able to play for a really long time without stopping and I would play these repeated patterns for hours and hours and I wouldn't seem to get tired.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  Time , Long , Long Time , Tired


I was using tape loops for dancers and dance production. I had very funky primitive equipment, in fact technology wasn't very good no matter how much money you had.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  Money , Good , Dance , Technology


It is important that we are coming up on the millennium because what I am experiencing, just being one person out of billions, is the feeling of acceleration. I experience this through my contact with other people.

Author: Terry Riley - American Composer
  People , I Am , Experience , Feeling


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