Skip to main content

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Composer Germany 1928–2007

20 quotes in the archive

Create image from Karlheinz Stockhausen's quotes

About Karlheinz Stockhausen on QuoteByQuote

Browse 20 quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen — copy lines for captions and speeches, or turn any quote into a shareable image with our quote image generator.

And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
But I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
I no longer limit myself.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
But 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.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Or in other works I have also projected the sound in a cube of loudspeakers. The sound can move vertically and diagonally at all speeds around the public.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
It is true that the eyes dominate the ears in our time.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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.
Karlheinz Stockhausen