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 never expected to record again. I knew I had done everything I ever wanted to do. I was satisfied. But... all the time I'm watching the country music horizon. And I'm sayin' 'Lord, is there anybody gonna come?'

我从未想过要再录一次。我知道我已经做了我想做的一切。我很满意。但是…我一直在看乡村音乐的地平线。我在说'上帝,有人会来吗?'

Anyone who acquires more than the usual amount of knowledge concerning a subject is bound to leave it as his contribution to the knowledge of the world.

任何一个人,如果他在某一方面获得的知识超过了通常的水平,他就一定会把它作为他对世界知识的贡献而离开。

A farmer never says, ''I've been all over that ground before," but he works it every year, and every year reaps a new harvest.

农夫从来不会说:“我以前到过那块地的所有地方。”但是他每年都耕种,每年都有新的收成。

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

交谈的第一要素是真理,第二要素是良好的感觉,第三要素是幽默,第四要素是机智。

The arts have always been an important ingredient to the health of a nation, but we haven't gotten there yet.

艺术一直是一个国家健康的重要组成部分,但我们还没有达到这一点。

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

吃饭时听音乐对厨师和小提琴手都是一种侮辱。

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。

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

这就是历史的教训:重复。