Words matter. These are the best Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Going to the blackboard at school was the worst torture.
Thriller’ reshaped sound. It reshaped everything.
The big difference with ‘Random Access Memories’ and maybe ‘Tron’ is that we decided to share the experience of making music with a bigger team.
We don’t really worry about… what the audience might think. When we make a piece of music we don’t worry whether they will like it or not; we are really trying to create the music that we want to listen to as individuals. We think it’s the healthiest way.
With American blockbuster cinema, everything is very fast, there’s a lot of action and narration.
When we began Daft Punk, by the albums we made, by the interviews we did and by every opportunity we had we tried to break all the boundaries between musical genres.
We like to keep things as a surprise. It’s always better like that.
It’s good for people not to have a narrow mind. Good music is good music.
The first song we ever performed, actually, was an instrumental, which says a lot about how shy we are.
We consciously tend to listen to stuff that is further than what we do. We listen to Bach.
It’s true that we come from the electronic scene in the ’90s, but maybe just two years before that we were not listening to electronic music. We like music in general, and maybe we’re more close to the rock energy or the rock aesthetic.
We’re like regular blokes.
All the music we’ve done with Daft Punk has got a wider, more diverse style; it has rock in it but it’s really full of special electronic beats… It’s not just rock so the music is different.
We say that we are the guinea pigs of our experiment, we are doing things on ourselves, and if the audience can enjoy it as much as we do then that’s great. If they don’t, that’s not a big deal.
We’re not idols onstage. We’re not the Rolling Stones.
We’re not performers, we’re not models – it would not be enjoyable for humanity to see our features, but the robots are exciting to people.
We experimented with stuff that some might find crazy, but we wanted to widen and make the spectrums of influence much larger, because house and electronic music is about freedom.
What’s odd is that Romanthony and Todd Edwards are not big in the United States at all. Their music had a big effect on us.
You can have energy in music and dance to it but still have soul.
We are huge Bach fans, and huge Glenn Gould fans.
It still amazes me that everyone is so crazy about what we are doing. Maybe I am just dreaming but people seem to really freak out at what we are doing. I don’t know why.
House music is not supposed to have so many rules.
The robots are far more trippy and opening your imagination than my face or Thomas’ face, and the way we live, which is not even a crazy celebrity lifestyle.
Since we began Daft Punk we go from surprise to surprise.
Whether it’s making music or directing a video, whatever we do we do it quickly.
I don’t listen to electronic music at home.
No, we never work with robots.
The 70s and the 80s are the tastiest era for us.
Obviously, we love ‘Tron.’
The ‘Discovery’ album was quite a successful record but we didn’t tour after that.
