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 特里·莱利

本质上,我的贡献是把重复作为主要成分引入西方音乐中没有任何旋律,没有任何重复的模式,音乐模式。

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I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen.

我不能告诉你是什么让第一个人想要继续,积极地做更多,而另一个人满足于不去做。这是个谜,但确实发生了。

But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.

但是人类社会的发展并不是一帆风顺的;因此,史诗的过程将是一个循环的过程,而这个系列将是一个循环的系列——尽管不是完全重复。

I believe that these devices like repetition and rhyme are not artificial, that they're not imposed, somehow, on the language.

我相信这些手段,比如重复和押韵,不是人为的,也不是强加在语言上的。

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

我们对变化是如何产生的认识中缺少一个主要的成分;那就是力量。

Nothing would more contribute to make a man wise than to have always an enemy in his view.

没有什么比在一个人的视野中始终有一个敌人更能使他明智的了。

The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market.

市场没有定义音乐;音乐决定了市场。

They said they respect me, which means, their judgment is crazy.

他们说他们尊重我,这意味着他们的判断是疯狂的。

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

你对所有事情的唯一贡献就是你自己。