"I had studied seriously up to a certain level, then I found it boring; I looked for other things, I found that the flute was too limiting... Soon I bought a microphone, then loudspeakers, then an echo, then a synthesizer. Much later I threw the flute away; it was a sort of process."

 (Florian Schneider, all'anagrafe Florian Schneider-Esleben, musicista; Öhningen, 7 aprile 1947 – Düsseldorf, 21 aprile 2020)