Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

I just like to do covers, every once in a while. If someone pays me to go into the studio, I'll do it.

Honestly, most of the stuff I made for 'TV on the Radio,' I write in the studio.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.

I'm never too ambitious when I go into the studio. I always know that I'm just going into the studio to work on or try to develop an idea that I have for a song.

I don't have to be working on an album to record a song.

I know what it takes to put a record together, so I'm not looking for people to come in and shape it.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

About one or two songs per record is me doing a little bloodletting.

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music.

I've never forgotten a single record I cut or a song I wrote.

It was a very bizarre experience for me, to get the songs together, go in there, and try to deliver them as I would perhaps in a live setting. But I realized that I couldn't take on that coffeehouse style that I came from and go in there and burn it up.

My music lives because of real players.

With 'Elect the Dead,' I learned how to make a rock record without a rock band and make the rock record I've always wanted to make.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.

Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.

The synth helped us in that it meant you didn't have to be a traditional four-piece band and basically, you didn't have to work too hard.

For us, we make a song, and if we like it, it goes on a record.

When I make albums, I do a lot of songwriting but not necessarily a whole album.

Nothing competes with the buzz of making your own record.

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

This is the most fun thing in the world to me, making music. Sitting down, I can make songs and not leave the booth, ever, and I love it.

You're always thinking about making new music.

We want to be able to make our own songs and write our own arrangements. We want to incorporate the live sound so we can be free onstage and in the studio recording. That way we can come up with original and creative stuff.