As for ourselves, we love our machines.Florian SchneiderTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“As for ourselves, we love our machines.
“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 SchneiderBought
“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.”
“Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.”Douglas CouplandMachines
“For me, the training has to be a mixture of hard work - it has to have a good structure, a good base - but also, I don't want all my players to be like machines.”Chris ColemanMachines
“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 SchneiderVehicles
“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 SchneiderMetro