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Thomas Bangalter Quotes
Thomas Bangalter Quotes
Thomas Bangalter
French
Musician
Born:
Jan 3
,
1975
Electronic
Music
People
Technology
Time
You
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The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.
Thomas Bangalter
Technology
Robot
Healthy
Other
Addictive
Has-Been
Sexy
Scary
Both
Concept
Terrifying
Stylish
Been
Subject
Hand
Literature
Much
Aspects
Cool
Fun
A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.
Thomas Bangalter
Will
Still
Years
Years Ago
Cello
Here
Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.
Thomas Bangalter
Music
You
Everybody
Tool
Everyone
Tricks
Magic
More
Feel
Like
Knows
Making
iPad
Same
Done
Listen
Electronic
Electronic Music
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
Thomas Bangalter
Music
Beginning
Ways
Rules
Spirit
House
Different
Break
In The Beginning
Electronic
Many
Electronic Music
Different Ways
Things
Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.
Thomas Bangalter
Music
You
People
Snobbery
Down
Kids
Would
Only
Segregated
Boundaries
Rock
Got
Reverse
Listen
Where
Break
Then
Electronic
Electronic Music
Started
Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.
Thomas Bangalter
Music
You
People
Aggressive
Someone
Shaking
Emotional
Emotional Level
Like
Move
Artists
Energetic
Level
Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.
Thomas Bangalter
Music
Build
Universe
Around
Wanted
There have been movies like 'Paranormal Activity' or 'Blair Witch Project' in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn't prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.
Thomas Bangalter
Life
You
Money
Project
Paranormal
Blair
Prevent
Could
Like
Witch
Well
Been
Than
Little
Movies
Them
Hollywood
Creating
Activity
Larger
Spectacles
There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.
Thomas Bangalter
Music
Sometimes
Confusion
Tools
Current
Being
Where
Laptop
Electronic
Electronic Music
Initially
I remember when I was a kid, I would watch 'Superman', and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows.
Thomas Bangalter
Remember
Superman
Feeling
Kid
Would
Clark
Super
No-One
Remember When
Knowing
Knows
Watch
Kent
In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.
Thomas Bangalter
About
Always
How
Discussion
Scream
Sequels
Suck
In the history of pop music, a lot of great records cost an enormous amount of money. There used to be a time where people that had means to experiment would do it, you know?
Thomas Bangalter
Music
Time
Great
History
You
People
Money
Experiment
Enormous
Would
Cost
Records
Had
Know
Lot
The History Of
Where
Pop
Means
Pop Music
Used
Amount
Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it's like there's no more magic - if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?
Thomas Bangalter
Music
Great
Technology
Made
Just Do It
Other
Everybody
Philosophically
Way
Ability
Magic
More
Bother
Like
Make
Audience
Accessible
Hand
Going
Just
Which
Interesting
Themselves
Interesting Way
Why
Usually, the 24-hour, high-maintenance celebrity lifestyle can disconnect people from reality.
Thomas Bangalter
Reality
People
Lifestyle
Disconnect
Celebrity
Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties.
Thomas Bangalter
Music
Police
Punk
Down
Punk Rock
Parties
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Were
Roll
Against
Electronic
Electronic Music
Initially
Shut
Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn't put out its best records.
Thomas Bangalter
Best
Band
Out
Records
Put
Years
Existence
'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.
Thomas Bangalter
Culture
Part
Timelessness
SNL
American
American Culture
Certain
Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.
Thomas Bangalter
You
First
Become
Air
Everything
Musical
Totally
Computer
Emotion
Computer-Generated
Never
Computers
Sterile
Like
Instruments
First Place
Within
Sound
Were
Effects
Wonders
Place
Movies
Create
Really
Hard
Code
Designed
Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.
Thomas Bangalter
You
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Will
Live
Thousand
Thousand Years
Years
Very
Artificial
Whereas
Low
Level
Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.
Thomas Bangalter
Music
Definitely
Hop
More
More And More
Taken
Over
Hip
Hip-Hop
America
Interaction
Electronic
Electronic Music
Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?
Thomas Bangalter
Good
Technology
People
Thinking
Bad
Carry
Does
How
How Much
Subject
Interesting
Much
Inherently
I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.
Thomas Bangalter
Good
Example
Think
Minimalism
Good Example
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