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Top 15 Terry Riley Quotes (2025 Update)

Terry Riley Quote: “It’s not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!”

1. “It’s not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!”

— Terry Riley

Terry Riley Quote: “Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.”

2. “Acceleration is finite, I think, according to some laws of physics.”

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Terry Riley Quote: “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. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.”

3. “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. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.”

— Terry Riley

Terry Riley Quote: “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.”

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

Terry Riley Quote: “The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn’t come with an instruction book.”

5. “The incredible thing about the human mind is that is didn’t come with an instruction book.”

— Terry Riley

Terry Riley Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Terry Riley Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Terry Riley Quote: “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.”

8. “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

Terry Riley Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— Terry Riley

Terry Riley Quote: “The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.”

10. “The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.”

— Terry Riley

Terry Riley Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

— Terry Riley

Terry Riley Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Terry Riley Quote: “Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.”

13. “Everyone seems to be in a kind of accelerated time mode that is beyond their own control.”

— Terry Riley

Terry Riley Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Terry Riley Quote: “I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I’d always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.”

15. “I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I’d always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.”

— Terry Riley

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