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Jean-Michel Jarre
Jean-Michel Jarre
French Musician
Born: Aug 24, 1948
First Me Music People World You
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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
Future Vision Car Fly Will Lost Before Nothing Garbage Universe Our Say Ways Has-Been Kind Select Exciting Idea Naive Global Global Warming How Reduced Go Been End Survive Same To Survive Warming Now
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
Politics Attitude Music Art Generation Whatever Thinking Way Never Never-Ending Like Contemptuous Been Condescending After Next Next Generation
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
Saying Freedom You Privacy Hide Care Freedom Of Speech Nothing Say About Because Than dont Care Different Right Speech
Most of the time, when you are in the studio, you are revealing yourself; you're a bit naked. You can express your weaknesses, your awkward way of approaching sound. Sharing these intimate moments is like inviting somebody into your private room. Jean-Michel Jarre
Time You Yourself Approaching Somebody Naked Intimate Way Bit Weaknesses Studio Sharing Inviting Like Most Revealing Sound Private Room Your Moments Express Awkward
Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album. Jean-Michel Jarre
Success You Song Sometimes Try Something Obscure Like Most Terms Hit Mean Your Works Album
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
Dreams Time Dark Tomorrow Our Our Dreams Visions Ourselves Kind Dinosaurs Restore Rather Unconscious Putting Idea Nostalgic Dynamic Next Suddenly Based Need
Emotions are the basics of any art form! Jean-Michel Jarre
Art Emotions Art Form Any Form Basics
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
Positive Music Man Change People Better Power Change Things Positive Way Way He Individuals Obviously Doing Very Intelligent Intelligent Man Trying Snowden Interested Electronic Electronic Music Things Elite Rejecting
I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it. Jean-Michel Jarre
Music Yourself Writing Way Find Dreamed Always Started
CDs are not as good as vinyl, and you buy one in the supermarket along with the yoghurt. Jean-Michel Jarre
Buy Good You Supermarket Along Vinyl
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
Music People Stage Later Tried Classical Recorded Put Sharing True Performance Major Instruments Audience Rock Opposite Were Them Then Electronic Electronic Music Designed
I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke curtain between the audience and me as a musician. Jean-Michel Jarre
Me Musician Kind Feel Between Pyramids Smoke Audience Very Privileged Curtain China Places Fantastic Created Played
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 You Words Phone Worth Simple Videos Would Would-Be Get Just Literature Rid Images
Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it. Jean-Michel Jarre
Music Photography Internet Free Accept Going Media Film
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
Exactly Exactly The Same Something Idea Feel Obsessed Sounds Heartbeat Same Human Wanted Should Ever Two
When I first heard Kraftwerk, I thought they were an American band singing in German. Jean-Michel Jarre
Thought First Singing Band Were Heard German American
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
Love You Technology Man Power Country Young Think Say Be Careful Promoted About Abuse His Questioning Stop Place Young Man Mean Deserves Careful
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
Better Sometimes Father Black Nothing Father Figure Black Hole Absence Than Just Hole Against Figure Rebel
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
Time Punk Considered Out Totally Moreover Days Concept French Instrumental Disco Far Early Early Days
I studied classical music in the Conservatory of Paris. Jean-Michel Jarre
Music Conservatory Classical Classical Music Paris Studied
To me, the original VCS3 synthesizer is like a Stradivarius. Jean-Michel Jarre
Me Synthesizer Like Original
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
You Money Guitar Old Long First Before Late Way Synthesizer Intuitive Recorder Computers Had Spontaneous Got Tape Tape Recorder Pink Pink Floyd Sell Same Modern Sixties Cannot Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Them Fantastic Use Used Things Raise Bristol Floyd
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
Future Vision Space Back Everything Seventies Poetic Had Like Felt Still Odyssey Movie Romantic Us
Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion. Jean-Michel Jarre
Fashion Creative Car Luxury Important More Industries Industry Than Jewels
I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant. Jean-Michel Jarre
Travel People Arrogant Believe More French Understand Why
Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's very German. Jean-Michel Jarre
Respect Approach Machines Dream Almost Like Robotic Tangerine German Very Bands Apology Who
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