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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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But 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 world doesn't reach their soul anymore. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Having been let out of the barn once, I know I wouldn't be happy if I were home all the time. ↗

— Meryl Streep

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He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please. ↗

— Bram Stoker

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Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

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A veritable incubator of short cuts, schemes and devices to overcome the truth. ↗

— David A. Stockman

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