Karlheinz Stockhausen Quotes

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Music stands in a much closer connection with pure sensation than any of the other arts.

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

Color is a power which directly influences the soul.

As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me.

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.

My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level.

Though I've been in horror movies, I just can't watch them. The first time I watched a 'Harry Potter' movie, I had nightmares for, like, two weeks.

Music, I feel like, affects people's moods.

The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

All I could do is lie there and think about how much her voice changed when she asked me if she was pretty, and how much she changed when I answered.

These Songs are not meant to be understood, you understand. They are only meant to terrify & comfort.

Music just affects people's feelings. It brings out emotions in you and makes you happy and sad.

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

The reactions music evokes are not feelings, but they are the images, memories of feelings.

I endeavor to make a picture, for instance, exert a positive influence on the observer by its coloring, mood, and compositional idea, encouraging, say, activation, tranquilization, concentration, or harmony.

Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body.

There’s no way you can kill someone and get to the other side of the experience unchanged.

I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.