Yes, I’m a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

About Klaus Schulze

Klaus Schulzewas a German electronic music pioneer, composer and musician. He also used the alias Richard Wahnfried and was a member of the Krautrock bands Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and the Cosmic Jokers before launching a solo career consisting of more than 60 albums released across six decades.

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Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

Yes, sampling has changed not just my way of playing and composing.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

As always in a musical collaboration: One has to like each other. As simple as that.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

Most of today’s music is done electronically.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

Manuel is still today a good friend. The others I see rarely, but with Edgar I phone from time to time.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

Yes, I’m a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

Then, in 1983 I went on a very long concert tour all over Europe.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn’t.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

I had to realize that the use of samples has its rules, too.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

I did not start IC and Inteam to have control over my music. I had control before and after.

Klaus Schulze

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)

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

German composer and musician (1947-2022)