Klaus Schulze Quotes

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself.

I just change with the times. I really don't have a say in what's going on. Music was here before me.

I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career.

Every time I write a song my approach changes.

For the last three years, I've been working on 'Bromst,' and that's all that encompassed my brain. And now that it's out, it will change the way that I think musically.

Since I was a child, my whole life has revolved around music. It's often while listening to a song that ideas for my fashion collections formed.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.

Our music is constantly evolving and changing, and when this band put out an album we always try to offer something different.

Sometimes for a lot of new artists, they don't have a vision, really, or know what they want to say; it's kind of drawn out for them. But me, because I'm such a transcendental thinker, it's always like a journey and an adventure with each project. It's like going through a different doorway each time.

People always want to talk about who I was, but I've always been singing, always been experimenting with pop music.

It's a great honor when somebody takes your song and does something different with it. That's what music is all about: to constantly change what somebody else has done.

I've been through a lot, both personally and professionally, and the album that I started to record two and a half years ago is a different album from the one that exists today. I even changed the album title. First it was 'All I Want is Everything,' and now it's 'Jumping Trains.'

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

Music is changing. I'm just doing what I'm doing, and hopefully in the next 20, 30 years, some kids can take what I'm doing and change it again. If the music doesn't move, then it's dead.

I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back.

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

For each album, I let the music that I love at that point in my life be my guide.

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

A song has a life of its own. It's an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it's subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn't feel like wallowing.