We are more like vehicles, a part of our mensch machine, our man-machine. Sometimes we play the music, sometimes the music plays… — Florian Schneider Computers Copy Share Image
“Collaborations are the black holes of knowledge regimes. They willingly produce nothingness, opulence and ill behavior. And it is their very vacuity… — Florian Schneider Black hole Copy Share Image
The image of the robot is very important to us, it's very stimulating to people's imaginations. — Florian Schneider Image Copy Share Image
There is no beginning and no end in music. Some people want it to end. But it goes on. — Florian Schneider Beginning Copy Share Image
I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much… — Florian Schneider Echo Copy Share Image
Kraftwerk isn't a band. It's a concept. We call it 'Die Menschmaschine,' which means 'the human machine.' — Florian Schneider Band Copy Share Image
Our studio is in the middle of an oil refinery. There's smoke and fire around it and when you emerge from the… — Florian Schneider Fire Copy Share Image
Our method of speaking is interrupted, hard-edged... a lot of consonants and noises. — Florian Schneider Interrupted Copy Share Image
In Paris, the people go in the Metro, they move, they go to their offices, 8 a.m. in the morning - it's… — Florian Schneider Control Copy Share Image
A person doing experimental music must be responsible for the results of the experiments. They could be very dangerous emotionally. — Florian Schneider Could Copy Share Image
We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas. — Florian Schneider Am Copy Share Image
Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums. — Florian Schneider Become Copy Share Image
We always found that many people are robots without knowing it. The interpreters of classical music, Horowitz for example, they are like… — Florian Schneider Always Copy Share Image
We don't make a distinction between an acoustic instrument as a source of sound and any sound in the air outside or… — Florian Schneider Air Copy Share Image