Karlheinz Stockhausen Music Quotations

Already very early I thought of a microphone as a musical instrument, like a bow or like a percussion instrument, whatever you use.

And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.

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

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.

I knew that the synthesis of sound and space music would be the most important aspect of the music of our time and of the future, since '53.