Karlheinz Stockhausen

"I always work with the expectation of touching something true."

"Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing."

"Every sound is music if you listen carefully."

"I compose like I breathe."

"The more consciousness you have, the more you suffer."

"In my view, the composer should be the most conscious person."

"I want to compose the music of the spheres."

"When you listen consciously, every sound transforms."

"Silence is more important than sound."

"I believe in the collective consciousness of humanity."

"Time is the material of music."

"Music is a language beyond words."

"The artist must be a receiver of inspiration."

"Intuition is the highest form of knowledge."

"Every moment is a new beginning."

"To create is to be alive."

"Sound is vibration made visible."

"I listen to what the universe tells me."

"Tradition is dead without innovation."

"The future of music is in consciousness."

"Beauty exists in the space between sounds."

"Complexity is the path to simplicity."

"Art is the window to the infinite."

"I compose for all humanity."

"Noise is only music not yet understood."

"The listener completes the work."

"Consciousness transforms everything it touches."

"I am eternally learning from silence."

"Music reveals the structure of reality."

"Fear is the enemy of creation."