Terry Riley Quotes
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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 ...
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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.
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Throughout the evening I would be recording these long saxophone delays and about four hours into the concert, if I wanted to take a break I would just play back the saxophone.
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Talking about the all night concerts, I did some of the first all night concerts back in the 60`s with this little harmonium, and I also had saxophone taped delays.
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So, 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.
