Top 23 Quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

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.

One experiments and has to choose always the best results.

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

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

Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

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.

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

Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.