Irmin Schmidt Quotes
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We never saw ourselves as a rock group.
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Germany was very strict; there was this phrase ‘serious music’. But in New York, there was no barrier – people were only interested in whether music was wild and interesting and beautiful.
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“We never cared about what people expected. I always imagined if one day we would go onstage again, people would think: ‘No, this isn’t Can. This is another group – we are in the wrong place.
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I’m no longer an avant-garde artist, out to shock, I want people to enjoy my music.
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The music had so many different styles because we all contributed everything we knew.
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Different parts, when they come together, it creates something new. And that’s what Can is. It’s not the sum of us four – it’s something new.