There is no beginning and no end in music. Some people want it to end. But it goes on. Florian Schneider Read Quote
We are more like vehicles, a part of our mensch machine, our man-machine. Sometimes we play the music, sometimes the music plays us, sometimes… it plays. Florian Schneider Read Quote
I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process. Florian Schneider Read Quote
Kraftwerk isn’t a band. It’s a concept. We call it ‘Die Menschmaschine,’ which means ‘the human machine.’ Florian Schneider Read Quote
We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas. Florian Schneider Read Quote
Our studio is in the middle of an oil refinery. There’s smoke and fire around it and when you emerge from the studio you hear this hissing sound all around you. Florian Schneider Read Quote
We don’t make a distinction between an acoustic instrument as a source of sound and any sound in the air outside or on a manufactured tape. It’s all electric energy, anyway. Florian Schneider Read Quote
Our method of speaking is interrupted, hard-edged… a lot of consonants and noises. Florian Schneider Read Quote
