Change Quote by Jean-Michel Jarre

“Ambitious people understand intelligent people far better than intelligent people understand ambitious people; therefore, ambition will always triumph over intelligence. Once you appreciate this…

— D.A. Blankinship

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

When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it was a…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

— Jean-Michel Jarre

In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

— 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 put microphones…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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…

— Jean-Michel Jarre

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…

— Jean-Michel Jarre