Klaus Schulze Quotes

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

Up to now I've done everything I've wanted to do the way I wanted to do myself.

I very much want to do things my way, and I want to control the result.

I don't much like being directed. I enjoy being allowed to play.

For my life, I need to make my own choices.

I've never been one to let others decide what's right for me or my children.

I've avoided situations where I wouldn't have creative freedom.

I see too many children who have their lives decided for them from the moment they are born. I want to give them the power to decide their own lives.

There were a couple of times where I shot things, or started off in one mode and thought, "Well, I really didn't want to do that." I would just change my mind. And frankly, I don't think anybody really cared. I didn't have some producer that had given me $10 million, demanding results. I could just kind of do whatever I thought was right, and move in that way.

I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

You don't even need the director's judgement. It's too much.

I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

Choosing what you want to do, and when to do it, is an act of creation.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go.

I feel I'm entitled to make my own decision.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

I'm not sure there are a lot of things I'd want a manager for. I suppose I feel that at least the decisions I make are coming from me, and I'm not put into a situation that I wouldn't want to be in.

From now on, I'll connect the dots my own way.

What people have thought of me, of the turns that I've taken, has never really played into my decisions.

When I'm in management meetings when we're deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I'm the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That's the part of my life where I feel most in control.