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1. "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
2. "Acceleration is finite, I think according to some laws of physics." ~ Terry Riley
3. "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
4. "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." ~ Terry Riley
5. "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
6. "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." ~ Terry Riley
7. "I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him." ~ Terry Riley
8. "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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