Jean-Michel Jarre

“Even if we artists are all very privileged, there's a constant frustration about how to do more or better, and never being satisfied.”

“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 find a bridge between Musique Concrete, electro-acoustic music, and proper rock music.”

“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.”

“Technology is neutral, but it all depends on the way we use it.”

“It's sometimes better to have a father figure to rebel against than nothing, than just a black hole or an absence.”

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

“Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality!”

“We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.”

“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!”

“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.”

“I was recently realizing that I've probably spent 80 percent of my life in studios! It's very difficult to do that and still have a private life; it's very difficult to do anything else.”

“I've always been involved in the visual aspect of my work, and moreover, it's very important in days where technology allows us to push the boundaries even more than when I started out.”

“When I compose an album, I don't think about how to adapt it on stage.”

“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.”

“Some collaborators might join forces in certain cities or special concerts. I'm excited to share the stage with some prestigious people that I love and respect.”

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

“The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.”

“In my opinion, British women are more romantic than French ones.”

“All those ethereal string sounds on 'Oxygene IV' come from the VCS3. It was the first European synthesizer, made in England by a guy called Peter Zinoviev. I got one of the first ones.”