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 StockhausenAbout author
- Author's profession: Composer
- Nationality: deutsch
- Born: August 22, 1928
- Died: December 5, 2007
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