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“When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.”
“The first song we ever performed, actually, was an instrumental, which says a lot about how shy we are.”
“The 'Discovery' album was quite a successful record but we didn't tour after that.”
“You cannot separate your life and your music and your job; everything's linked.”
“Technically it was really hard to render the right way the second album on stage.”
“Thriller' reshaped sound. It reshaped everything.”
“We are not really skilled musicians. I mean, I can play a little bit of guitar. Thomas can play piano.”
“Whether it's making music or directing a video, whatever we do we do it quickly.”
“Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture.”
“Coming from 'Homework,' which was a really minimal album, 'Discovery' was much more difficult to perform on stage.”
“It's funny, we appear as robots from another world, but what we do, what the robots create, is really human after all.”
“We experimented with stuff that some might find crazy, but we wanted to widen and make the spectrums of influence much larger, because house and electronic music is about freedom.”
“The 'Discovery' album is really complex and really rich and really full of instruments, different parts and stuff.”
“The 70s and the 80s are the tastiest era for us.”
“We're not performers, we're not models - it would not be enjoyable for humanity to see our features, but the robots are exciting to people.”
“Primal Scream's 'Screamadelica' was one of the pivotal records.”
“House music is not supposed to have so many rules.”
“With American blockbuster cinema, everything is very fast, there's a lot of action and narration.”
“We consciously tend to listen to stuff that is further than what we do. We listen to Bach.”
“We wanted to draw a line between public life and private life.”