Klaus Schulze Quotes


"Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing."
- Klaus Schulze
"Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: Play)

"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
(Related: Company, Environment, Job, Press, Sound)

"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
(Related: Money, Success)

"We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: Past, Tradition)

"Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: Europe)

"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
(Related: Music, Evil, Fight, Managers, Poor, Press)

"The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: First, Voice)

"Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: Music)

"Most of today's music is done electronically."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: Music, Today)

"I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: Music, Control)

"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
(Related: Music, Company, Problems)

"I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: Rules)

"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
(Related: Change, Time, Music)

"Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't."
- Klaus Schulze
"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
(Related: Music, Dance, Being, Body, Dancing, Spirit)

"Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: World)

"As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties."
- Klaus Schulze
"As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that."
- Klaus Schulze
"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
"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
(Related: Nothing)

"My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air."
- Klaus Schulze
(Related: Music, Interest, Want)

"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
(Related: Music, Time, Nothing)