Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

Jean-Michel Jarre

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 24, 1948

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

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

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

It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.

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 you're getting closer, it's not there.

Jean-Michel Jarre

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

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

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

When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!

Jean-Michel Jarre

As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.

Jean-Michel Jarre

CDs are not as good as vinyl, and you buy one in the supermarket along with the yoghurt.

Jean-Michel Jarre

My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.

Jean-Michel Jarre

When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.

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 tomorrow. And if you don't stand up for it, then who will?

Jean-Michel Jarre

I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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