Quotes by Jean-Michel Jarre

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

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.

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.

My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3.

When I began making electronic music, the only thing I was thinking about was creating music that I really liked. I didnt think about what effect it would have; I was busy doing it.

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. Its undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

I dont necessarily like anniversaries that much.

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

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.

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

I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound.

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

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.

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

Peace is neutral, and not very sexy.

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

Saying that you dont care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you dont care about freedom of speech because you have nothing to say.