Art & Creativity Quote by Klaus Schulze

There’s something almost stubbornly plain about Schulze’s line, and that’s the point. In a world that treats collaboration like a marketing category - “featuring” as brand extension - he frames it as a mood: sometimes. Not always, not as a mission statement, not even as a sign of artistic growth. Just a preference that comes and goes. The understatement reads like an artist protecting his autonomy without making a speech about it.

Schulze’s context matters: a composer synonymous with long-form, machine-driven, headphone-deep electronic journeys, where the drama is built from timbre, repetition, and slow evolution rather than a human narrator. Vocals in that universe are not default; they’re an intervention. A singer drags the music toward language, biography, and performance. Saying he likes making music “together with” singers places the voice back where Schulze wants it: not as a frontman’s spotlight, but as another instrument entering the system.

The double “singer or with singers” is telling, too. It’s both modest and practical, the way musicians actually talk when the work is more about process than persona. One voice can be a texture; multiple voices can become architecture. Either way, the intent feels less like courting accessibility and more like widening the palette when the piece calls for it.

Under the calm phrasing sits a quiet assertion: collaboration isn’t surrender, it’s a chosen color.