“I learn my world through writing.”— Charlotte Eriksson Related Quotes “I hate cops. You’re either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.”— James Kaplan “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 “I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn’t enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn’t prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.”– Frank McCourt