Michael Rother famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

NEU!'s music will always ("fÃ¼r immer") be a part of me and I absolutely stand to what we've created. Of course I have changed since and I judge my contributions to NEU!'s music of the 70's in a historical context. They were both a description of my feelings back then as well as an expression of my musical abilities and limitations. It would be a mistake to ignore the time factor and it would be an artistic shortcoming to pick up on the old concept without doing any changes. There is no way this is going to happen anyway.
-- Michael Rother

#Mistake #Musical Ability #Expression
Back then and later on when I was in NEU! and Harmonia I was too much preoccupied with my own music to be aware of the German music scene, let alone following it actively. But changes which were happening with S.o.S. (namely the development of individual ideas and the effort to distinguish from the Anglo- American rock patterns) also helped me recognize other musicians within my immediate vicinity.
-- Michael Rother

#Rocks #Ideas #Effort
Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst others singer Wolfgang Riechmann (Sky Records released his only solo album Wunderbar shortly after his death in 1978) and drummer Wolfgang FlÃ¼r (later on Kraftwerk, now solo). The music of S.o.S. in the mid 60's first was the English pop and rock music of the times (Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones ).
-- Michael Rother

#Guitar #Sky #Rocks
As a conscientious objector I did my community service in 1971 in a psychiatric hospital and a friend there, who also was a guitar player, invited me one day to join him recording film music with a band named Kraftwerk which I didn't know at the time. I came along and jammed at this session together with Ralf HÃ¼tter and a drummer (I believe his name was Charly WeiÃŸ). Florian Schneider and Klaus Dinger were present as listeners and everybody liked the spontaneous music we did together.
-- Michael Rother

#Believe #Player #Names

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
Future generations may or may not judge Wittgenstein to be one of the great philosophers. Even if they do not, however, he is sure always to count as one of the great personalities of philosophy. From our perspective it is easy to mistake one for the other; which he is time will tell.
Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.
People who think of children's nudity as a tool don't need freedom of expression.
David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

Michael Rother famous quotes

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