Daily Inspiration Quote by Klaus Schulze

There’s a sly shrug in Klaus Schulze’s “As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the sixties” that does two things at once: it pays homage and it quietly refuses to be mythologized. Schulze isn’t spinning a heroic origin story. He’s puncturing it. By framing his fandom as generic, he sidesteps the rock-world temptation to retroactively turn every influence into a prophetic sign pointing toward one’s own genius.

The line also works as a cultural timestamp. “Pink Floyd in the sixties” is less a band reference than a shorthand for a whole sonic permission slip: long-form structure, studio-as-instrument thinking, and the sense that popular music could be exploratory without apologizing. For a composer who helped define German electronic and kosmische music, admitting that entry point is both disarming and clarifying. It suggests his experimental streak wasn’t hatched in isolation or in some purely “European art music” vacuum; it was braided into mass culture.

The subtext is humility with an edge. Schulze acknowledges the obvious influence while protecting his own narrative from lazy causality. Yes, he listened like everyone else. The difference is what he did afterward: he took the era’s psychedelic openness and translated it into synthesizer-driven atmospheres that weren’t trying to be songs, or solos, or spectacle. The remark implies: don’t overread my influences, but don’t pretend this music came from nowhere either.