Thomas Bangalter Quotes

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

It’s very strange how electronic music formatted itself and forgot that its roots are about the surprise, freedom, and the acceptance of every race, gender, and style of music into this big party.

If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

We have always been thinking about different ways to perform electronic music, i.e. music made with machines.

It's nice to be able to forget.

We like the idea that the things we do seem to come out of nowhere.

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

The show, like everything we have done and still do, is just one more experiment.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Hip-hop has always been exciting and interesting to us.

America is a new country, and maybe patriotism helps Americans create unity, since it is a melting pot. But nationalism in Europe has a strong history, as you may know.

The thousands of clips on internet are better to us than any DVD that could have been released.

Being nationalistic in France has nothing in common with being patriotic in America.

You never know whether something will be good.

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.