“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.” LongPlaySeemsAbleHoursPlansLong TimeTiredPatternsStoppingReally LongSpecialty Author:Terry Riley
“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.” WellsSimplePiecesBuiltStructurePatternsVillageOne PieceProminenceGlobal Village Author:Terry Riley
“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.” WesternMusicalPatternsContributionOver ItMelodyIngredientsIntroducingRepetitionGdpWestern Music Author:Terry Riley
