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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. ↗

— Terry Riley

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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. ↗

— Terry Riley

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It seems like we are moving towards something, some kind of point and it is probably going to be an important point in our development or dissolution. That is what everybody seems to be thinking. ↗

— Terry Riley

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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. ↗

— Terry Riley

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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. ↗

— Terry Riley

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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 at that time. ↗

— Terry Riley

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The accepted versions of the Bible are all substantially correct. ↗

— William Bell Riley

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The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation. ↗

— William Bell Riley

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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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