Quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen

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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work – I don’t like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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And I’ll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn’t move to other events with different tempos in particular.
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I’m an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn’t reach their soul anymore.
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And I’m always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
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I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
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Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.
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We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human being: music.
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The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing
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