Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

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

I grew up listening to a lot of Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Devo, all that stuff.

I love futurist music.

I've always been interested in electronica, techno, trip-hop, that kind of music. The thing that bothered me about a lot of that music, though, was it seemed devoid of emotion. There wasn't a lot that felt personal.

I'm not much into current electronic stuff, what I think of as lounge electronics, mumbling electronics.

Prince turned experimental music into pop music. 'When Doves Cry,' the whole 'Purple Rain' soundtrack - he was inspired by the Cocteau Twins and new wave pop and brought it into R&B when he first started, and then it became this cool, next-level, kind of hard-to-digest music. Which is what I felt 'House of Balloons' was.

New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

Kraftwerk has become historic and is now exposed in museums.

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

'Oxygene' was one of the first, if not the first, popular electronic music album.

I'm more akin to things like Sigur Ros, Mogwai, possibly. But when I'm making solo electronic music, techno stuff is just the most exciting form of rhythm.

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

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.

I like a lot of electronica. I like older jazz rather than newer.

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

I've never really been that much of a fan of Ninja Tune.

I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.

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

I had an album out at exactly the same time as 'Love to Love You' called 'Einzelganger,' and it's great, all electronic. I'm using a vocoder, doing all this cut-up stuff on there, but no one knows about it.

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

I love some electronic music. I'm not a big fan of dubstep, but there is so much good electronic music out there.

Yeah, I always listen to both classic and newer folk-influenced music. Singer-songwriter, alternative music. I also listen to more experimental dance music.

My favorite song is 'Cybele's Reverie' by Stereolab.

I don't want to make an album which is full of brutal and jarring techno.