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

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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.

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

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

I feel very privileged to have played China, and the pyramids, all these fantastic places, but it created a kind of smoke curtain between the audience and me as a musician.

Jean-Michel Jarre

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

Jean-Michel Jarre

CDs are not as good as vinyl, and you buy one in the supermarket along with the yoghurt.

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

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

From the outside, being an artist seems like a dream life, but there are much darker aspects to it.

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.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Electronic musicians are quite like writers or painters. They are quite isolated in their home studios. We often don't have that the opportunity to collaborate with that many people, like in rock or jazz.

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

The value of streaming platforms is estimated at a few billion dollars, and creators can only afford a pizza without pepperoni at the end of the year with the revenues. Without musicians, all those platforms wouldn't exist, so we urgently need an appropriate and sustainable business model for musicians for the 21st century.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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.

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre

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

Jean-Michel Jarre