Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

Jean-Michel Jarre

Profession : Musician

Birth : August 24, 1948

With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.

Jean-Michel Jarre

At the time, 'Oxygene' was considered a totally 'far out' concept... What was 'in' at the time was disco, hard-rock, and the early days of punk... and moreover, 'Oxygene' was instrumental. And I was French!

Jean-Michel Jarre

I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I used to play in rock bands. Then I went to the first school of electronic music in the world. It was in Paris headed by one of the most important people involved in electronic music.

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 born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

Jean-Michel Jarre

To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie '2001: A Space Odyssey.' It felt as if everything was still ahead of us.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I collect robots. They're mainly Japanese, American, and especially Russian - small robots, big robots, and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties.

Jean-Michel Jarre

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.

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 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes.

Jean-Michel Jarre

The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

All those ethereal string sounds on 'Oxygene IV' come from the VCS3. It was the first European synthesizer, made in England by a guy called Peter Zinoviev. I got one of the first ones.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I wanted to find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.

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