The value of streaming platforms is estimated at a few billion dollars, and creators can only afford a pizza without pepperoni at the end of the year with the revenues. Without musicians, all those platforms wouldn’t exist, so we urgently need an appropriate and sustainable business model for musicians for the 21st century. Jean-Michel Jarre Read Quote
What is very interesting when talking about electronic music is that – I would say that rock and roll is called the ethnic music born in America that invaded the world. Electronic music is certainly kind of ethnic music born in countries like Germany and France that has invaded the world. Jean-Michel Jarre Read Quote
Back in the Seventies, we had a romantic, poetic vision of the future, like it was in the movie ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ It felt as if everything was still ahead of us. Jean-Michel Jarre Read Quote
I collect robots. They’re mainly Japanese, American, and especially Russian – small robots, big robots, and old toy robots made between 1910 and the Fifties. Jean-Michel Jarre Read Quote
My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was 60. I almost have to apologise for my genes. Jean-Michel Jarre Read Quote
The paradox is that Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Jobs, and all the tech giants are bigger fans of music than some of the executives working at major record companies. Jean-Michel Jarre Read Quote
Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion. Jean-Michel Jarre Read Quote
I was always interested in mixing experimentation with pop music, and Brian Eno, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream – we were all doing it at the same time, just very isolated from each other, all in our different cellars, in different worlds, without the Internet – underground in every sense. Jean-Michel Jarre Read Quote
In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch. Jean-Michel Jarre Read Quote
