Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a positive way, trying to… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didn't… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art,… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic music. He did his soundtracks by himself, using… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music,… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
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… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on 'Oxygene' should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists. — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
