Thomas Bangalter

Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.

— Thomas Bangalter

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch,

— Thomas Bangalter

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

— Thomas Bangalter

You never know whether something will be good.

— Thomas Bangalter

The show, like everything we have done and still do, is just one more experiment.

— Thomas Bangalter

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe…

— Thomas Bangalter

We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or…

— Thomas Bangalter

It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s…

— Thomas Bangalter

The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.

— Thomas Bangalter

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.

— Thomas Bangalter

The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally…

— Thomas Bangalter

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

— Thomas Bangalter

I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record…

— Thomas Bangalter

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years…

— Thomas Bangalter

It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of…

— Thomas Bangalter

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

— Thomas Bangalter

There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase…

— Thomas Bangalter

It's nice to be able to forget.

— Thomas Bangalter

Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the…

— Thomas Bangalter

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

— Thomas Bangalter

Human After All was the music we wanted to make at the time we did it. We have always strongly felt there…

— Thomas Bangalter