Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds.

Pan Sonic sound like they are playing music of the future made with the electric instruments of yesterday.

Clipping is a very specific, concept-y thing. We have all these rules: we don't sample drums. We create all our own sounds. I don't speak in the first person. We come from a background of experimental music like John Cage... Philip Glass.

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

There will be some tracks on the next album which that will consist of mostly noise and feedback, whereas others may just have guitar parts and samples.

I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.

I was greatly influenced by musique concrete when I was, like, 10. I was completely mesmerized by the idea that you could make music out of sounds. So that's been a constant influence on all my work.

Rock and ambient music might as well reside on opposite sides of the galaxy, so it's almost shocking when a band like Deerhunter melds the two so effectively.

In school, I did a lot of computer work. I'd take splices from Kurt Weill songs and loop them in bars, in beats of seven, trying all different kinds of things.

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

Tightly embracing guitar effects and tape loops, Mission of Burma made sound an important commodity in rock 'n' roll, and its members carried that tradition into their first album after a 19-year hiatus, 2004's 'ONoffON.'

I was doing the Klaus Schulze noise-kid thing before it became interesting to people.

I guess you could call my music progressive, pop, rock.

You will hear ambient in our music. You will hear trip-hop.

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

I love futurist music.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

I think my sound is post-Internet.

One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer a clarinet or a spring or a piano, but a sound with a form, a development, a life of its own.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

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.

I think early on in my career, I was heavily inspired by bands like Throbbing Gristle and Test Dept, and films of David Lynch, for example, where the soundscape plays a very important role in the listening experience.

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