Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes
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The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.
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It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.
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One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.
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I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.
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With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.
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We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.
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I am not someone who is afraid; I am someone who reasons.
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I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.
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Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the Internet.
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People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic music. He did his soundtracks by himself, using mostly electronic and analog synthesizers. He's a cult figure with DJs these days for good reasons.
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Some collaborators might join forces in certain cities or special concerts. I'm excited to share the stage with some prestigious people that I love and respect.
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To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.
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Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
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I collect robots. They're mainly Japanese, American, and especially Russian - small robots, big robots, and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties.
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I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.
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Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album.
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For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.
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For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.
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I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it's very difficult to do anything else.
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I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.
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I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement.
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Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
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People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.
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When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.