"As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament."

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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