Jean-Michel Jarre

Jean-Michel Jarre

24-Aug-1948


France


Musician

QUOTES BY Jean-Michel Jarre


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

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

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.

Saying that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.

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.

I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect between people, infidelity is always something difficult to accept - whether you are Chinese, British, French. I think that is a universal concept... or problem.

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.

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

I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant.

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