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For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Snowden has demonstrated true love for his country. He has done something to improve the lives of people.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies.

Jean-Michel Jarre

What is important to me is that the world understand that the problems of the Dead Sea concern not only residents of the region but humanity.

Jean-Michel Jarre

If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.

Jean-Michel Jarre

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Bands like Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream, who I respect, have a very robotic, dehumanised approach. They're almost an apology for machines. It's very German.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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.

Jean-Michel Jarre

When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it was a very interesting and exciting approach to music, but I also saw that it was very intellectual and quite dogmatic.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I was obsessed with the idea that no two sounds on 'Oxygene' should ever be exactly the same. I wanted a heartbeat feel, something human.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I collect robots. They're mainly Japanese, American, and especially Russian - small robots, big robots, and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I'm convinced that the earth is much stronger than us.

Jean-Michel Jarre

With electronic music, you are not confined to the acoustics of a concert-hall, and that inspired me to bring my performances outdoors.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

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.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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!

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

As a musician, I have always strived for my albums and live performance to render a sound as close as possible to perfection.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Emotions are the basics of any art form!

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

When I heard Edward Snowden's story, it reminded me of my mother in a strange way. She was in the French resistance from early on, 1941. At that time, the Resistance were considered troublemakers - even traitors - in France.

Jean-Michel Jarre

My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I did the first 'Oxygene' on an 8 tracks tape recorder with very few instruments, with no other choice than being minimalist.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Most of the time, when you are in the studio, you are revealing yourself; you're a bit naked. You can express your weaknesses, your awkward way of approaching sound. Sharing these intimate moments is like inviting somebody into your private room.

Jean-Michel Jarre

Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream - we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet - underground in every sense.

Jean-Michel Jarre

My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion.

Jean-Michel Jarre

I just had one occasion in my life when suddenly my private life was everywhere, and that was an accident and beyond my control.

Jean-Michel Jarre

If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It's rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it's not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.

Jean-Michel Jarre

People are rejecting the power of the elite, but individuals such as Snowden are doing so in a positive way, trying to change things for the better. He is a very intelligent man and obviously interested in electronic music.

Jean-Michel Jarre