Explore popular quotes and sayings by Ralf Hutter.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Ralf Hütter is a German musician and composer best known as the lead singer and keyboardist of Kraftwerk, which he founded with Florian Schneider in 1969. On May 12, 2021, Kraftwerk was announced as one of the inductees of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
We don't want to limit ourselves to any specific sound like that was before when we were brought up in classical music.
We have aspects in our music that refer to space, like Kometenmelodie, but we also have some very earthly aspects that are very direct and not from outer space but from inner space like from the human being and the body, and very close to every day life.
For me, the music is spiritual and I think comes to life when we perform it in concert.
For me, the music is immaterial: It is sounds and visions.
Our music is always, as you know, very spacey- computer graphics, music, images, lyrics, and visual art we make ourselves, or that we make with artists. And it's all synchronized.
The telephone is an antiquity - you never know who is calling, there is no image, it is an outmoded product which constantly disrupts work.