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When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.

Technology is an interesting subject, people thinking: how much good, and how much bad, does it inherently carry?

Thomas Bangalter

It's really interesting to just look at the career of a musician and a producer that went into many different genres and many different styles and many different places but always breaking the barriers between genres and at some point reinventing himself all along the way but also inventing things at the same time.

Thomas Bangalter

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

Thomas Bangalter

When you look at C-3PO and Darth Vader and then look at the actors behind them, you can't really make the connection. It kills the magic.

Thomas Bangalter

Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile - there's no sound, there's no air. It's totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it's really hard to create emotion.

Thomas Bangalter

'SNL' is this part of American culture with a certain timelessness to it.

Thomas Bangalter

It's a very subjective, personal, instinctive approach as musicians of saying, 'We don't want to replace what's around; we just want to widen the possibilities.'

Thomas Bangalter

I remember when I was a kid, I would watch 'Superman', and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows.

Thomas Bangalter

There's something in human performance that is very smooth and very fluid, and at the same time it can be very precise, and that can take a lot of time, trial and error.

Thomas Bangalter

Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.

Thomas Bangalter

The late '70's and early '80s is the zenith of a certain craftsmanship in sound recording.

Thomas Bangalter

In 'Scream 2', they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.

Thomas Bangalter

A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.

Thomas Bangalter

I think 'Tron' is a good example of minimalism.

Thomas Bangalter

There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that's like the start of electronic music - there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for.

Thomas Bangalter

Music was segregated in the '80s, and then in the '90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.

Thomas Bangalter

Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music - it's like someone shaking you. But it can't move people on an emotional level.

Thomas Bangalter

The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.

Thomas Bangalter