Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

Electronic music was this super cool thing to me my whole life.

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

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

I am associated with techno epics.

Disco is the first technology music. And what I mean is that 'disco' music is named after discs, because when technology grew to where they didn't need a band in the clubs, the DJ played it on a disc.

Disco evolved into Chicago warehouse. Then there was techno; eventually, it evolved into EDM.

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

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

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

Electronic music has existed since the '70s, and it's almost comical how many subgenres of it there are.

For me, electronic music is the classical music of the 21st century.

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

In terms of writing more club tracks, writing more electronically influenced - I feel like it was all electronically influenced, but now that influence has come to me in a different way.

I'm a big fan of electronic dance music.

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.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

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.

Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.

I'm not so rock and roll. I'm more techno.

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.

When I was younger, I was a rave kid trapped inside a singer/songwriter's body. But I kind of figured my way out because I started making these really terrible beats on this Yamaha keyboard that my parents got me for my 10th birthday.

The last thing I do is go and listen to heavy rock music. But I love electronic music. The purity of the tones is inspiring, because it's obviously much more controlled than a guitar tone.

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

The sound system influence is undeniable in hip-hop, in jungle, drum and bass, now EDM.