Quotes by Jean Michel Jarre - Page 2

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Concern
Residents
Sea
Region
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Genes
Resistance
Second World War
War Mother World
Apologise
War World Mother
Passed
World War
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Hardy
Singers
Pop Songs
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Desert
Closer
Ideal
Mirage
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Ideals
Actions
Harming
Stand Up
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Robots
Collect
Fifties
Japanese
Mainly
Toy
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Apology
Approach
Machines
German
Robotic
Tangerine
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Cities
Collaborators
Concerts
Prestigious
Love Respect People
Join
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The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Bigger
Executives
Giants
Paradox
Record Companies
Companies
Major
Mark Zuckerberg
Tech
Steve
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Obscure
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Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Odyssey
Poetic
Seventies
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Fun
Light
Thinking
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I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke curtain between the audience and me as a musician.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Privileged
Pyramids
Smoke
Curtain
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What may not have value to you today may have value to an entire population, entire people, an entire way of life tomorrow. And if you don't stand up for it, then who will?
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Population
Tomorrow
Life Today Tomorrow
Stand Up
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When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Busy
Electronic Music
Electronic
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All those ethereal string sounds on 'Oxygene IV' come from the VCS3. It was the first European synthesizer, made in England by a guy called Peter Zinoviev. I got one of the first ones.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Peter
String
Synthesizer
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The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Ambiguous
Electronica
Pocket
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Electronic Music
Rock Bands
Music World People
Electronic
Headed
Important People
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Aspect
Boundaries
Work Technology Always
Visual
Moreover
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I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It's undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Architecture
Barcelona
Cities
Favourite
Olympic
Stadium
Undoubtedly
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Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Don't Care
Freedom Of Speech
Privacy
Speech
Hide
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Private Life
Realizing
Studios
Life My Life Difficult
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Electronic Music
Opposite
Electronic
Impressionist
Mechanical
Robotic
Tangerine
Visions
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When you have a young man, I mean, questioning the power in place for love of his country, not to say 'stop' but to say 'be careful about the abuse of technology,' I think it deserves to be promoted.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Abuse
Be Careful
Questioning
Young Man
Promoted
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Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Belong
Governments
Undermine
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Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the opportunity to collaborate with that many people, like in rock or jazz.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Isolated
Studios
Electronic
Painters
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At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French!
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Disco
Early Days
Instrumental
Moreover
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When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had no idea about James Dean or the Beatles or Charlie Chaplin, modern music or modern cinema.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Chaplin
Chinese
Dean
Mao
Modern Music
No Idea
Western Culture
Chinese People
James
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Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Attitude
Condescending
Contemptuous
Never Ending
Thinking
Politics Art Music
After
Whatever
Generation
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Ballet
Choreography
Electronic Music
First Time
Opera
Troupe
Played
Electronic
First Things
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Birthday
Contact
Fifth
Sat
Me Remember I Can
Baker
Chest
Upright
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People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a positive way, trying to change things for the better. He is a very intelligent man and obviously interested in electronic music.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Electronic Music
Intelligent
Intelligent Man
Rejecting
Snowden
Positive Change Power
Change Things
Electronic
Positive Way
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When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
France
Heard
Mother
Resistance
Snowden
Strange
Time Me Way
Considered
French
Early
Edward
Reminded
She
Strange Way
Traitors
Troublemakers
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Analog
Carpenter
Cult
Djs
Electronic Music
Enough
Soundtracks
Good Music People
Good Music Enough
Did
Days
Electronic
Good Music Important
Figure
Himself
John
John Carpenter
Mostly
Realize
Reasons
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When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it was a very interesting and exciting approach to music, but I also saw that it was very intellectual and quite dogmatic.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Discovering
Electronic Music
Electronic
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Most of the time, when you are in the studio, you are revealing yourself; you're a bit naked. You can express your weaknesses, your awkward way of approaching sound. Sharing these intimate moments is like inviting somebody into your private room.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Intimate
Inviting
Naked
Revealing
Time Yourself Your
Approaching
Time Yourself Way
Sharing
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I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect between people, infidelity is always something difficult to accept - whether you are Chinese, British, French. I think that is a universal concept... or problem.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Relationship
British
Chinese
Difficult
Infidelity
Problem
Real Relationship
Love Respect Always
Love Respect Relationship
Accept
Love Relationship Respect
Concept
French
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Dinosaurs
Nostalgic
Our Dreams
Tomorrow
Unconscious
Dynamic
Restore
Visions
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In a lifetime, you can say, yes, you have instances of pleasure, of happiness, you like some of your work, but your work is the entire story, and if you are not satisfied with a few moments of a few parts of that story, you would like to be able to adjust that.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Lifetime
Satisfied
Adjust
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Eats
Partner
Pursuing
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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.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Illegal
Beforehand
Exactly The Same
Network
Paying
Radio Station
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I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Brian
Different Worlds
Experimentation
Isolated
Mixing
Pop Music
Time Music Always
Time Music Internet
Tangerine
Underground
Worlds
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What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Electronic Music
France
Germany
Rock And Roll
Music World America
Electronic
Ethnic
Invaded
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We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Garbage
Global Warming
Select
Reduced
Survive
To Survive
Warming
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With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Adapted
Electronic Music
Grammar
Violin
Visual
Music Me Important
Electronic
For Example
Music Me Beginning
Instrument
Invent
Understands
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The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Electronic Music
Instruments
Music People True
Opposite
Classical
Designed
Electronic
Sharing
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The value of streaming platforms is estimated at a few billion dollars, and creators can only afford a pizza without pepperoni at the end of the year with the revenues. Without musicians, all those platforms wouldn't exist, so we urgently need an appropriate and sustainable business model for musicians for the 21st century.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Appropriate
Pizza
Platforms
Streaming
Afford
Billion
Billion Dollars
Business Model
Creators
Sustainable
Estimated
Revenues
Urgently
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My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Computers
Acoustic Guitar
Bristol
Intuitive
Late
Spontaneous
Tape
Acoustic
Sell
Floyd
Pink
Pink Floyd
Raise
Recorder
Sixties
Synthesizer
Tape Recorder
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For AERO, I wanted to revisit in 5.1 some existing tracks in order to give them that space I had imagined when I originally composed them, and also to compose some new tracks for this new technology. All of the existing tracks in AERO have been performed with the original instruments, re-recorded and spatially arranged/spatialised for this new dimensional sound experience without betraying their very essence.
Jean Michel Jarre / Composer
Technology
Essence
Order
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