Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

I've been a fan of electronic music since the beginning.

My roots in electronic music go from weird glitch music to now what's seen as pop music. Electronic music is pop music now.

I love a lot of different styles, but my heart belongs in electronic music.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

I've been a fan of electronic music for a while.

'Blackheart' is purely falling into the electronic world and pushing the envelope.

What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that - I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world.

I love futurist music.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

Dance music is no longer a simple Donna Summer beat. It's become a whole language that I find fascinating and exciting. Eventually, it will lose the dance tag and join the fore of rock.

When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.

There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

My sound is definitely what I like to call 'e-clectric.'

Holland is a really small country, but with a very strong club and festival scene. Dance music has been huge in Holland since the late eighties. So there were a lot of opportunities for producers and DJs to release records and play live.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

Most of today's music is done electronically.

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass.