Time & Perspective Quote by Klaus Schulze

Fame is supposed to freeze people into a neat lineup of lifelong allies and rivals; Schulze shrugs and gives you the messier truth: relationships don’t “end,” they just degrade into different bandwidths. “Still today” does quiet work here. It’s a timestamp and a defense against the myth of the scene-as-family, the idea that the pioneering German electronic world (and its famously combustible egos) naturally produced permanent brotherhood. Schulze is telling you: some bonds survived the weather, most didn’t.

The line is almost aggressively ordinary, which is the point. He doesn’t mythologize Manuel, or dramatize distance from “the others.” He catalogs it the way a touring musician learns to: proximity is a medium. You share vans, studios, hotel lobbies, and suddenly your best friends are whoever is in the room. Then the room changes.

The name-drops matter, too, because they’re non-performative. Manuel and Edgar aren’t invoked as icons; they’re treated as people with contact frequency. “Good friend” versus “rarely” versus “phone from time to time” maps a social hierarchy without cruelty. Schulze is also implicitly resisting the fan impulse to read a creative movement as a permanent coalition. The subtext is pragmatic: art history wants neat narratives, but adult life runs on maintenance. Friendship isn’t a legend you inherit from a classic era; it’s a habit you keep, or you don’t.