Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Florian Schneider

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German musician Florian Schneider.

Last updated on April 17, 2025.

Florian Schneider-Esleben was a German musician. He is best known as one of the founding members and leaders of the electronic band Kraftwerk, performing his role with the band until his departure in 2008.

German - Musician | April 7, 1947 - April 21, 2020

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

Florian Schneider

In Paris, the people go in the Metro, they move, they go to their offices, 8 a.m. in the morning - it's like remote control.

Florian Schneider

We always found that many people are robots without knowing it. The interpreters of classical music, Horowitz for example, they are like robots, making a reproduction of the music which is always the same. It's automatic, and they do it as if it were natural, which is not true.

Florian Schneider

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

Florian Schneider

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

Florian Schneider

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

We're just private people.

Florian Schneider

Emotion' is a strange word.

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... it plays.

Florian Schneider

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

Florian Schneider

As for ourselves, we love our machines.

Florian Schneider

We are not the band. I am me. Ralf is Ralf. And Kraftwerk is a vehicle for our ideas.

Florian Schneider

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

Florian Schneider

Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums.

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 threw the flute away; it was a sort of process.

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 hear this hissing sound all around you.

Florian Schneider

Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Florian Schneider

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