Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

The creative sector is incredibly important to London's economy in a number of different ways.

I'm proud to be a member of the creative class, particularly here in Atlanta where the entertainment and creative industries form such an integral part of our economy, our culture, and our community.

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an economically newborn future for this country. They show that the U.K. could be a prime provider of imaginative riches and intellectual adventure, which I think are the two great prizes of the 21st century.

It's not a coincidence these two industry areas - Silicon Valley and Hollywood - use the same jargon. They share a common language, the language of the creator, of the entrepreneur.

Britain is home to world class creative industries and talents.

More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

New York is full of creative people, not only in fashion.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

Something I notice speaking to writers from south of Hadrian's Wall is that the culture is different. At base, I think Scotland values its creative industries differently from England.

The truth is, we haven't really figured out yet how artists are going to thrive in modern mass societies. We're all experiments.

The arts are an integral part of the city's economic progress.

My biggest concern about the market is the force that acts to drive down price, because I think that's destructive to authors as well as publishers. Our biggest battle is to underline the value of intellectual property.

In California, of all places, entertainment is the key to a vibrant economy. If we do not develop young adults capable of entering that world, the financial base of this state is sure to suffer and impact all of us.

I'm very supportive of creative people being paid for the work that they do.

All across America, through the promotion of the arts, neighborhoods create job growth and development.

It's not unusual for a luxury company to be born from a single product and then diversify. Louis Vuitton began with luggage, and Gucci with leather goods.

The entertainment industry is one of the areas where we have a competitive advantage over other nations.

I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

I have been a product and a beneficiary of the creative industry.

We need to create technologies - and a culture of respect, and an updated legal doctrine, too - that allow creative folks to make money from their own efforts.

If we don't give the authors of music, film, literature, and journalism a way to control the distribution of their goods, the quality of all of these creative efforts will decline.

The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.

Certainly, 'creativity' has been a vital plank of New Labour strategy. It not only hands out money with the enthusiasm of a Medici, but also invites the talented arts world into the very heart of government.