Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes
I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.
Quotes to Explore
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.
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I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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It's not like I didn't do anything for 10 years and chose a new profession. I've been on the ice a lot. I'm not an outsider.
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I think pride is more important sometimes than making money.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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Most of us do more than subsist. From the vantage point of our ancestors, we live lives of almost unimaginable ease. Here again, we have innovation to thank.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
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We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
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I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
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Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.
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I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.
