"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."

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Source : Interview with Gamall Awad and Ammon Haggerty, www.qaswa.com. October 9, 1992.

Terry Riley

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“I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.”
“Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.”
“Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.”

Source : Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 12, 2014.
“I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.”
“Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.”
“According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat. In lay terms, I interpret this to mean that people are working much harder, causing economic growth, and they're in danger of spending their money, which is what the recession-hit shops want them to do. But the Bank and the City seem to think this is wrong, and that if people work harder they should be punished by having their mortgages increased.”
“They do not see what they look at, hence they know not what they do.”
“Itâ€™s easy to see why politicians would be drawn to the populist pose. First, it makes everything so simple. The economic crisis was caused by a complex web of factors, including global imbalances caused by the rise of China. But with the populist narrative, you can just blame Goldman Sachs.”

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