Klaus Schulze Quotes

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

You make music to change the radio, not make music for the radio.

The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing.

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.

Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario.

I wanted to stay independent because I figured there was no way I was going to be able to have control to create the type of music I want. I was basically ignoring a lot of labels.

The record company stay out of my way. Whenever the record is finished, they take it.

I certainly don't want to be a record label guy.

The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music.

I have just enough people paying attention that I have the freedom to be in charge. And I have a great record company - Nonesuch understands what I'm about.

I should be the one to say what I do. It's just not done that way anymore in Nashville, and I can't do it the other way. That's how our record label came about.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

After giving countless hit songs, I felt saturated. I decided to do music only for my own films and music albums. And so, I decided to start my own music label.

I'm not interested in being the producer of somebody else's song.

I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential.

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

So it was out of necessity that Blackheart was born. I think it's great that now, 25 years later, we're not only putting out our own music, but are able to put out music by other bands. That's really exciting for us.

I've never worried about how a new release will be received. I simply try to do the best I can and leave the rest to the gods. The music industry in those terms is something I loathe and detest. It conjures up images of a gigantic factory spewing out parts of the machine.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

I'm just focusing on 'Let's Stay Together' and slowly building my production company. I'm trying to get into writing as well.

The music business is really a spiritual business whether we know it or not.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.