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It's really interesting to just look at the career of a musician and a producer that went into many different genres and many different styles and many different places but always breaking the barriers between genres and at some point reinventing himself all along the way but also inventing things at the same time.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Always
#Look
#Point
#Time
#Way
There's a confusion sometimes with the laptop being the current tools and where electronic music initially comes from.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Confusion
#Laptop
#Music
#Sometimes
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.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Aggressive
#Energetic
#Music
#People
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.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Done
#Everyone
#Feel
#Magic
#Music
Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Around
#Build
#Music
#Universe
#Wanted
The only secret to being in control is to have it in the beginning. Retaining control is still hard, but obtaining control is virtually impossible.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Beginning
#Control
#Hard
#Impossible
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?
- Thomas Bangalter
#Ability
#Great
#Music
#Technology
#Way
Initially, electronic music was anti-establishment, as punk rock and rock n' roll were. The music was shut down; the police were against the parties.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Against
#Down
#Music
#Police
#Rock
Technology is fascinating.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Fascinating
#Technology
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.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Cool
#Fun
#Literature
#Sexy
#Technology
I remember when I was a kid, I would watch 'Superman', and I was super into the feeling of knowing that Clark Kent is Superman and no one knows.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Feeling
#Knowing
#Remember
#Watch
#Would
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.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Air
#Computers
#Movies
#Place
#Sound
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.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Activity
#Life
#Money
#Movies
#Project
Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Intelligence
#Level
#Live
#Low
#Will
The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.
- Thomas Bangalter
#Beginning
#House
#Music
#Rules
#Spirit
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