97 Quotes by Jean-Michel Jarre

Dance fascinates me, and it is perhaps the most enriching audio-visual realm for a musician. Film-making also fascinates me.

With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.

I had no precise plan when I started 'Electronica,' but I think it has been a very positive journey for me.

I am not someone who is afraid; I am someone who reasons.

Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the opportunity to collaborate with that many people, like in rock or jazz.

I don't necessarily like anniversaries that much.

I leave everyone to have their own opinions of my music and my influence - or not - on others.

When I did the first 'Oxygene' in the vinyl days, I had a structure in mind divided in 2 parts fitting the A&B sides of an album.

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.