Klaus Schulze famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Emotional #Voice #Musical
As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Simple #Musical #Collaboration
Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Sampling #Way #Changed
Most of today's music is done electronically.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Done #Today
The problem was the journalists who also did not understand much of my music, but they wrote about it. I think you fell into the usual trap laid out by parts of the press and other writers: that the poor musician has always to fight the evil companies and managers.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Fighting #Thinking #Evil
When I came back I had to realize that IC was not in a very good shape - all the much money that we had because of the huge Ideal success, was gone. I was very upset.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Upset #Gone #Shapes
I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Giving #Trying #Records
How did this or that change my music? The only time I have to think about it is when an interviewer asks me that.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Thinking #Ask Me
I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Rocks #Eras #Common
I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Ideas #Solo #Wanted
We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Past #Tradition
Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Dancing #Body #Spirit
Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Things Change #Boring
Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Guitar #Names #Trios
A concert is a concert is a concert is a concert. An album is an album is an album is an album. Musically, both have nothing in common.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Albums #Common #Concerts
Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Good Friend #Phones #Today
I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Use #Realizing #Sample
Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Play #Musician #Sometimes
As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Fans #Sixty
I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Before And After
Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Black And White #World #Good And Bad
Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Jobs #Sound #Environment
And of course, the musician - if he's serious - always answers: My last album is my best, otherwise I wouldn't have done it.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Musician #Albums #Done
Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Together #Singers #Sometimes

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