Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can.

Hopefully each film can be given a musical voice of its own, which is not to say that the instrumentation is always unique, but that the relationship between the sound and the image is unique.

I never have used any other artist as a model for a sound or a song. It always has to come from an emotion, and capturing the essence of that emotion in a song.

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

When directors tell me they want a song like one, I tell them no song should be like another. I don't listen to directors.

Every album has its own character.

'End of Summer' expands the way I want to express myself as a composer. It's a piece of visual music that has this narrative and conceptual dimension to it.

You can't make a film for your personal satisfaction. That is why I detest the cinema of people like Mani Kaul.

You should be able to deliver what the artist you're working with wants.

There's a lot of terms we come up with for the music that we're making because we want something that's going to be definitive. Often there is no word to encapsulate the emotion that the music represents.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

I shot 'Blue Valentine' on 16mm for the past, and for the present on the Red Camera. I feel that both formats are valid. The stories should dictate the format we shoot on. Filmmakers should have a choice.

I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music.

I am interested in all aspects of filmmaking, so I have an opinion on every aspect, so sound design, score, cinematography, editing - all that stuff I have experience doing myself, so I had a very strong idea of what I wanted, and I got, for the most part, people that were able to articulate that idea, which was nice.

The works we do in Moooi are very diverse, very eclectic. That's how we like it.

My music is not like everybody gonna love it, it's really what I make of it.

You can make what you want. People care about what the artist has to say, what the sound is, and how it affects them.

I was doing well in TV as a freelance cameraman, but it wasn't the direction I wanted to go in. I directed videos and tried to put something cinematic in every one. Dialogue, action sequences, helicopter, Steadicam.

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

I very much enjoy working with talented filmmakers who have a good sense for music, who have a strong feel for music and for what music can do in a film.

There's a quality to the sound of a trumpet that you can really twist for any kind of sound and mood that you want to create.

Music, for me, in a film is never... I don't want to use music as a slave of the image. I want music to be art, or a body in itself to give something to the film.

I never consciously tried to conceive of what my sound should be.

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.

I wanted to lift the aspects of the lyrics and imagery that I found sincerely powerful and touching, plus the amazing musical extremities, and make my own thing. That's what making music has always been for me. Synthesizing a nonexistent kind of music that I wish existed because I wanted to listen to it.