Daily Inspiration Quote by Klaus Schulze

Schulze’s line has the blunt practicality of someone who’s spent decades watching the myth of “pure” musical chemistry crash into human reality. Electronic music fans often imagine the studio as a sealed lab: knobs, sequences, genius. Schulze punctures that with a surprisingly low-tech requirement - liking the person across the table. Not respecting, not admiring, not “finding their work interesting.” Liking. It’s almost disarming in its simplicity, and that’s the point: he’s demystifying collaboration by reducing it to the one condition you can’t patch in later.

The subtext is about time, vulnerability, and friction. Collaboration isn’t a single shared riff; it’s hours of indecision, repeated listening, small disappointments, and the ego bruises that come from having your best idea politely ignored. If you don’t like each other, every creative negotiation becomes a referendum on status. If you do, compromise can feel like play instead of loss. Schulze frames it as “as always,” a quiet swipe at the industry fantasy that professionalism alone smooths everything over.

Context matters: Schulze came out of the Berlin School world where long-form composition and studio experimentation demand patience and trust. In that setting, interpersonal dislike isn’t just awkward - it’s audible. The music can turn rigid, defensive, overly controlled. His “as simple as that” isn’t naive; it’s a veteran’s shortcut to the real gatekeeper of creativity: emotional stamina between people.