Jean-Michel Jarre

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

The characteristic of 'Oxygene' is a mixture of innocence and ambition, of trying to do something different in a different way.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

The value of streaming platforms is estimated at a few billion dollars, and creators can only afford a pizza without pepperoni at…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

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

Our senses have changed, even though our emotions have not.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

What may not have value to you today may have value to an entire population, entire people, an entire way of life…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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

When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.

— Jean-Michel Jarre