Famous quotes by Composers

"It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: My music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Most of today's music is done electronically"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"In particular, what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"Well, no. I believe that it's not at all impossible that some of the performances that I've heard so far by some pianists may be superior to my own playing because those are two totally different acts altogether"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"I distrust anything that you don't hear"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Then, in 1983, I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't?"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Besides merely some pleasure that we get out of the combinations of pitches together and lines, I think that there is some satisfaction that we get in the fact of having this diffuse thing organized very concretely and put onto a frame and have it actually decided"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate; that just at that second things coincide"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It Simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"We can use techniques in modifying things, in controlling things, but the first impulse has to be something that you simply cannot make just out of technique, or else it becomes perfectly evident that it is nothing but technique that you're exercising"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Today, each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"It doesn't necessarily mean at all that the composer plays his own works best"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"By the visual pattern, but mostly I'm guided entirely by my ear, what I hear"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

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