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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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I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.
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To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.
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Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's very German.
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In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.
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Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It's rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it's not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.
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Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
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For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.
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Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.
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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've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.
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Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.
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I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.
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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 remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.
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Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
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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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When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.
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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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I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris headed by one of the most important people involved in electronic music.
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My first break was in my home country with some pop songs that became hits, writing for French singers Christophe & Francoise Hardy, which became hits.
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When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.
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Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.
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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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