Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes
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I am not someone who is afraid; I am someone who reasons.
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My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes.
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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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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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To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.
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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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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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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 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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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 just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.
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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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For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.
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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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For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.
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Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.
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Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!
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I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.
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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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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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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 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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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.