Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

Jean-Michel Jarre

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 24, 1948

People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a positive way, trying to change things for the better. He is a very intelligent man and obviously interested in electronic music.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I have always been of the opinion that when those in power are promoting actions and ideals that risk harming or impeding us, people should stand up to this.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Snowden has demonstrated true love for his country. He has done something to improve the lives of people.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

The whole 'Electronica' project is about the ambiguous relationship we have with technology: on the one side, we have the world in our pocket; on the other, we are spied on constantly.

Jean-Michel Jarre

People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.

Jean-Michel Jarre

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I would say to anyone starting out that if their priority in life is happiness, then don't be a musician.

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 you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

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 on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.

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 be worth $50.

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

Think about when you listen to a song on the radio. You are not paying for it; it's not illegal to do it, because the rights have been paid for on top, beforehand, by the radio station, by the network. We have to find exactly the same kind of system with the Internet.

Jean-Michel Jarre

We should never forget that in the smartphone, the smart part is us creators.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on 'Oxygene' should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human.

Jean-Michel Jarre

When you have a young man, I mean, questioning the power in place for love of his country, not to say 'stop' but to say 'be careful about the abuse of technology,' I think it deserves to be promoted.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.

Jean-Michel Jarre