Karlheinz Stockhausen Quotes

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.

In school, I did a lot of computer work. I'd take splices from Kurt Weill songs and loop them in bars, in beats of seven, trying all different kinds of things.

It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.

For me music is central, so when one's talking about poetry, for the most part Plato's talking primarily about words, where I talk about notes, I talk about tone, I talk about timbre, I talk about rhythms.

I write music visually.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.

Composing music is hard work.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

Ed Sheeran wrote his songs, so I wanted to write my own songs.

I've always been a songwriter.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.

What really excites me is the production. I get in there and change a lot of stuff.

Jerry Goldsmith's 'Voyager' theme is a brilliant reworking of the original material.

I've got so many melodies in my head.

Queen had incredible songwriters.

Nothing I do is ever void of melody. I know it might seem like I'm doing a lot of rapping, but I'm always utilizing tone and trying to find a key signature. So, I don't look at myself as a rapper.

A good theme - like the 'Pink Panther' or 'Baby Elephant Walk' - can work all the way through the picture, which is what I did with them. So, for me, a good melody is not just a pretty tune.

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

Recording should be fun.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.