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

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

When a certain piece of music penetrates a person, a resonance is set in motion and an inner voice says: "I like this resonance. It elevates me. It d…

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

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 becom…

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

Music is mathematics, the mathematics of listening, mathematics for the ears.

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

I was horrible at everything I ever tried to do and people respect me. The American Dream has come true!!

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

We are no longer the same after hearing certain sounds, and this is more the case when we hear organized sounds, sounds organized by another human be…

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

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 wo…

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.

- Karlheinz Stockhausen

The September 11 attacks were the greatest work of art in the cosmos...compared to that, we composers are nothing

- Karlheinz Stockhausen