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"You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way."
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"I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"If we perform the romantic repertoire we need more musicians."
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"Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now."
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"Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like."
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"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."
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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."
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"The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."
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"When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30."
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Explore more quotes by Karlheinz Stockhausen

"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."
Work

"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."
Change

"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."
Public

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

"One experiments and has to choose always the best results."
Result

"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."
Music

"Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm."
Music

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

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