I don't normally turn to Swiss electronica for guidance when considering the more serious questions of life, but I quite like this quote. And not just because I fall over a lot. Besides, some people call Yello 'the Godfathers of Techno' and godfathers are pretty wise as a general rule.
Yello, if you don't know the name, are responsible for "Oh Yeah", which most people will have heard at the end of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The other guy is Boris Blank, which is almost as funny a name as the Riff Raff cinema in Zurich, where a documentary made about the band premiered in 2005. He's blind in one eye because of a childhood accident involving empty bullet shells and gunpowder, and taught himself about music by playing a home-made bamboo flute.
Dieter Meier comes from a Swiss banking family, and is normally never seen without his signature cravat. When he's not busy being half of Yello he's busy being a millionaire industrialist with interests in the technology industry, or playing professional poker, or designing silk scarves, or making organic wine on his ranch in Argentina, where he also breeds beef-cattle. He's written a children's book and for a brief period he was a member of the Swiss national golf team.
In 1972, as part of an art project, he installed a plaque in a German railway station. It read “On March 23 1994, from 3 to 4 pm, Dieter Meier will stand on this plaque.”. in 1994, he did.
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