Words matter. These are the best Thomas Bangalter Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
Music was segregated in the ’80s, and then in the ’90s the boundaries started to break down, and rock kids got into electronic music. But then you got this reverse snobbery where people would only listen to electronic music and not rock.
I think ‘Tron’ is a good example of minimalism.
Technology is fascinating.
Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.
Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it’s no more magic.
Technology has made music accessible in a philosophically interesting way, which is great. But on the other hand, when everybody has the ability to make magic, it’s like there’s no more magic – if the audience can just do it themselves, why are they going to bother?
There have been movies like ‘Paranormal Activity’ or ‘Blair Witch Project’ in Hollywood that showed you could do movies with little or no money. It doesn’t prevent them from creating larger than life spectacles as well.
A cello was there 400 years ago and will still be here in 400 years.
There’s a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.
In ‘Scream 2’, they have this discussion about how sequels always suck.
Artists are overcompensating with this aggressive, energetic, hyperstimulating music – it’s like someone shaking you. But it can’t move people on an emotional level.
Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.
Usually, a band 20 years into its existence doesn’t put out its best records.
Skrillex has been successful because he has a recognizable sound: You hear a dubstep song: even if it’s not him, you think it’s him.
Electronic music has definitely taken over America. There is more and more interaction with hip hop.
There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that’s like the start of electronic music – there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for.
Computers were never designed in the first place to become musical instruments. Within a computer, everything is sterile – there’s no sound, there’s no air. It’s totally code. Like with computer-generated effects in movies, you can create wonders. But it’s really hard to create emotion.
The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it’s cool, it’s fun, it’s healthy, it’s sexy, it’s stylish. On the other hand it’s terrifying, it’s alienating, it’s addictive, and it’s scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.
