Thomas Bangalter Quotes

Pop music has progressed.

If hip-hop is dead, then let it rest in peace and let's move on to something else.

Music's always going to evolve, and we can't really stop that, so we have to figure out what's the next thing and how we move towards that as opposed to just being like, 'Oh, cool: let's just continue making tear-out EDM hits that are gonna last 2 months, and then somebody else is making the exact same thing under a different name.'

I think that the revolution in music is over, and what's left is a mop-up action. It's a matter of the news getting out to everybody else. I think that the important changes have already happened, changes in consciousness. It's mostly a matter of everything else catching up to that. Everything is traditionally slow - much faster than it ever has been on earth but still far, far too slow.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

I wanted to modernize music, but more than that, to completely modernize people's attitudes towards life in general.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

I don't see that there are any particular changes in popular music.

Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music.

When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.

Pop belonged to more musical people in earlier times, but we've sort of gotten away from that. Now it's software people. I kind of feel like reclaiming it is in order.

The idea of the peace movement and of people who spent their entire lives trying to have a more egalitarian, just society, suddenly became swamped by the record industry, by the new rock and roll culture, and by the idea of not trusting anyone over thirty.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations

The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.

It's complicated for my music to be accepted, even in Lebanon and the Arabic world - I sing in Arabic, but there's no lute, no classical instruments. Maybe with the Internet opening things up, things will change.

Pop music follows the evolution of society in general: Everything moves faster.

I think for a while, a lot of artists were doing great things that... were broadening the audience so that country was cool.

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

There's never going to be a new Beatles because we don't consume things in that way anymore.

We're not going to change the world or the music business.

People are always bemoaning the fact that electronic music is finding its way into the mainstream. To me, that's the best possible thing. It's going to give us a much bigger platform. It's going to train people's ears to these sounds so they can listen to a track even if it doesn't have vocals.

Anytime something makes money, no matter how outré, it's instantly mainstream. A good example is rock 'n' roll. When rock 'n' roll was first played to a wide audience it was considered the devil's music.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.