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

Discovery, Invention

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

Exlpore more Discovery quotes

"To get where you want to go, the first question you always have to answer is Where am I? ... We only find out where we are when we find out where He is. We only find ourselves... when we find Him."

Ann Voskamp, Canadian Author

Discovery, Faith, Identity, Presence

"But that was what research and development were like. Full of semi-triumphs and perplexing unforeseen consequences like the whole violent hiccuping thing when conjuring up fire - or the propensity for fillings to fall out of bystanders' teeth when attempting to tease a rainstorm out of a cloud."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Discovery, Research, Failure, Chaos

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery."

James Joyce, Irish Novelist

Discovery, Errors, Man

"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."

Tahir Shah, British Author

Discovery, Journey, History, Curiosity

"Heaven can be found in the most unlikely corners."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Discovery, Heaven, Hope, Light, Peace

"It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Discovery, Expertise, Learning, Values

"You certainly usually find something if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Discovery, Expectation, Reality, Surprise

"The power of the sky can be made to do men's bidding. There are no limits to its secrets and its might, and it can be made to grant us anything if we but choose to ask."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Discovery, Power, Sky, Secrets, Nature

"If we do not find anything very pleasant, at least we shall find something new."

Voltaire, French Writer

Discovery, Novelty, Life, Hope

"We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth."

Ian McEwan, British Author

Discovery, Truth, Faith, Perseverance

Explore more quotes by 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."

Music

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

Work

"I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language."

Language

"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."

Soul

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

Body

"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

"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."

Time

"I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus."

Music

"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."

Sound

"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