Control Quote by Florian Schneider

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...…

— Florian Schneider

“Collaborations are the black holes of knowledge regimes. They willingly produce nothingness, opulence and ill behavior. And it is their very vacuity that is…

— Florian Schneider

The image of the robot is very important to us, it's very stimulating to people's imaginations.

— Florian Schneider

There is no beginning and no end in music. Some people want it to end. But it goes on.

— Florian Schneider

As for ourselves, we love our machines.

— Florian Schneider

I found that the flute was too limiting. Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesiser. Much later I…

— Florian Schneider

Kraftwerk isn't a band. It's a concept. We call it 'Die Menschmaschine,' which means 'the human machine.'

— Florian Schneider

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…

— Florian Schneider

Our method of speaking is interrupted, hard-edged... a lot of consonants and noises.

— Florian Schneider

Emotion' is a strange word.

— Florian Schneider

A person doing experimental music must be responsible for the results of the experiments. They could be very dangerous emotionally.

— Florian Schneider

We're just private people.

— Florian Schneider