Technology does not always rhyme with perfection and reliability. Far from it in reality! - Jean-Michel Jarre 1 Share Now -
My first synthesizer was the VCS3. I got it in Bristol in the late Sixties, long before Pink Floyd used them. I had to sell an acoustic guitar and an old reel-to-reel tape recorder to raise the money. You can do fantastic things with modern computers, but you cannot use them in the same intuitive, spontaneous way you can a VCS3. - Jean-Michel Jarre 2 Share Now -
Creative industries are more important than the car industry, luxury jewels, and fashion. - Jean-Michel Jarre 4 Share Now -
I think that in any language when you have a real relationship, and there is love and respect between people, infidelity is always something difficult to accept - whether you are Chinese, British, French. I think that is a universal concept... or problem. - Jean-Michel Jarre 5 Share Now -
We have lost our vision for the future. Before, we say, 'Nothing will be the same. Cars will fly, and we go to the end of the universe.' We have this kind of naive but exciting idea of the future. Now, the vision has been reduced to ways to select our garbage and how to survive global warming. - Jean-Michel Jarre 6 Share Now -
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 7 Share Now -
I understand more when I travel why people believe that the French are arrogant. - Jean-Michel Jarre 8 Share Now -
I remember, for my fifth birthday, Chet Baker sat me on the upright piano, and he played just for me for a few minutes. I can still remember the pressure of the air on my chest. It was my first physical contact with sound. - Jean-Michel Jarre 10 Share Now -
