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• ‟ The difference between noise and music is in what the musician does with the sounds.

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• ‟ For me, electronic music is like cooking: it's a sensual organic activity where you can mix ingredients.

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• ‟ The major rock instruments and classical instruments were designed for performance, for sharing the music with an audience, and then later people put microphones on them and recorded them. But for electronic music, the opposite was true - they're designed in laboratories, and later, we tried to put them on stage.

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

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

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• ‟ With the violin, for example, one understands culturally that the sound comes from the instrument that can be seen. With electronic music, it is not the same at all. That's why it seemed so important to me, from the beginning of my career, to invent a grammar, a visual vocabulary adapted to electronic music.

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• ‟ If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.

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• ‟ Pursuing music eats into your life to the point where there is no space left for anything else. You are lucky if you find a partner who is able to understand that, but even then, they will only understand it for a while, and then things get - you know, difficult.

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• ‟ When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western culture. They had no idea about James Dean or the Beatles or Charlie Chaplin, modern music or modern cinema.

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• ‟ When I was at the Group for Musical Research, with this idea of discovering electronic music, I quickly realized that that it was a very interesting and exciting approach to music, but I also saw that it was very intellectual and quite dogmatic.

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• ‟ Governments can help support European music by promoting public awareness that when people take music that doesn't belong to them, they undermine the future of those very artists whose work they enjoy.

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• ‟ Music is the backbone of my shows.

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• ‟ People don't realize enough how important and influentical John Carpenter has been in electronic music. He did his soundtracks by himself, using mostly electronic and analog synthesizers. He's a cult figure with DJs these days for good reasons.

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• ‟ I always dreamed, when I started writing music, to find a way of immersing yourself in it.

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• ‟ People who do music do it because it is all they can do. And that's me, I suppose. I can do nothing else.

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• ‟ I wanted to create a bridge between experimental music and pop.

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• ‟ If you get rid of music, images, videos, words and literature from the smartphone, you just have a simple phone that would be worth $50.

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• ‟ Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

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• ‟ I thought we had opposite visions of electronic music. Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk had a very robotic, mechanical approach. I had a more impressionist vision - a Ravel/Debussy approach.

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