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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
Tags: human-being, race, understanding, new

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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
Tags: new, time, simple, music
Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.
— Terry Riley
Tags: food, me, music, nature
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
Tags: money, you, technology, good
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.
— Terry Riley
Tags: big, done, rainbow, long
I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him.
— Terry Riley
Tags: him, been, studying, music
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