Florian Schneider Quotes

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

I like records that flow really well and you don't have to skip around because there's lot of different jumps.

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

All things take time. A lot of my films still run on cable and are in video stores, and there's a whole generation that doesn't know who I am. So, it's a dichotomy. In some people's minds I may never grow up.

When I die, just keep playing the records.

I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.

there never is a happy ending because nothing ever ends.

History is never antiquated, because humanity is always fundamentally the same.

In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile--movable.

The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.

There is no before. There is only now, and what comes next.

Late in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

Mankind is ever the same, and nothing lost out of nature, though everything is altered.

Certain songs have been written years apart, but they have a natural continuity to my mind.

Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Substance is enduring, form is ephemeral. Failure to distinguish clearly between the two is ruinous. Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future. Preserve substance; modify form; know the difference.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

I have a mantra that kind of explains my feelings on this subject, which is, "The past is the present is the future." When you're recording something, you're making something that will exist in the future.

It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millenia.

The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.

There is no proof nor yet any denial. We were, we are, and we will be.

When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.