David Stubbs: Future Days: Krautrock and the Building of Modern Germany

In order to invent anew, it was necessary... to reject Anglo-American dominance by drawing from it.
The convulsive vacillation in Krautrock between the axes of noise and beauty, metal and nature speaks about trauma and healing, destruction and rebirth, but at a subliminal, unspoken level.

"Music is just notes. What you speculate beyond that is pure nonsense."
- Klaus Schulze

"He used to dance to our music in a very extreme fashion. Once I saw him at the front of the stage with this naked old woman and he was shoving his Vaselined finger in and out of her backside to the rhythm of the music while ringing a bell at the same time."
- Chris Karrer