Thomas Bangalter Quotes

The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up.

I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

I started getting into Internet technologies and computers. I wasn't especially interested in being a musician, but I wound up finding my way back to being interested in music through computers.

No one has bridged that gap between music and technology yet.

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

I think the Internet is going to open up a lot of possibilities with music, and the shake-up of power is exciting to me.

I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came out in the early '80s. There's no way to be original. All you can do is put yourself into it and do the best you can.

Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

It's much easier to have a diversified career as an electronic musician than it is as a drummer. Nothing against drummers. If you're a drummer, you just wait around for people to ask you to play drums. But if you have your own studio and can make music, you have the ability to approach music a lot differently.

I've always had a deep passion for a lot of early electronic and sampled music.

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

I had two passions growing up - one was music, one was technology. I tried to play in a band for a while, but I was never talented enough to make it. And I started companies. One day came along and I decided to combine the two - and there was Spotify.

My music, my whole approach to the synthesizer has completely changed now.

There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

There's so many people doing interesting things with the Internet and technology, there could be so many ways of making music and listening to it.

Guitars, there was rock 'n' roll. Saxophone, jazz. Now we have the computer and there's this electronic thing happening in music that is somewhat superhuman.