Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes
I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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The music is just so rich and part of the culture there. I suddenly felt like I needed to go on this mission to make sure we save New Orleans because - not that I can save anything - but it's so much part of what this country is, this whole mix of people coming together and doing this thing.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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A writer's job is to give the reader a larger vision of the world.
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There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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For me, the music dictates the melody. Give me a riff to sing over, you know?
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
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I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I probably would have felt emboldened to make more interesting music earlier on, or really go for it in an artistic or songwriting sense.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.
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I've heard directing talked about as being a benign dictatorship, and I think that's probably the best way a director should be. They're open to collaboration and feedback from people, but ultimately, it's got to be that one person's vision. That's what I think makes a film really stand out.
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I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.
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I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
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With my talent, I can make people laugh and give them another attitude about life. What a blessing that is for me.
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I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.
