“ 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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“ 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. ”
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“ 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. Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ”
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“ 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. Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ”
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“ Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics. ”
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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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“ The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. ”
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“ 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. Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ”
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“ The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. ”
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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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“ Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound. ”
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“ I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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“ 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. Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ”
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“ 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. ”
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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. ”
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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. ”
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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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“ This morning I was practicing raga, and at one point I was singing a long tone and I became very peaceful and still. I thought this is really the highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else, just to be in a state of being to the highest point. ”
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“ 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. Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ”
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“ I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. ”
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“ I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. ”
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“ I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. ”
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“ The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn't come with an instruction book. ”
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“ Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics. ”
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“ 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- Copy
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“ 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. Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ”
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“ 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. Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control. ”
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