97 Quotes by Jean-Michel Jarre

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.