Thomas Bangalter Quotes

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

  Thomas Bangalter

  Moving, Comfort, Inches

  "Daft Punk: All Hail Our Robot Overlords". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.rollingstone.com. May 21, 2013.

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

  Thomas Bangalter

  Magic, Tricks, Knows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You never know whether something will be good.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Be Good

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Party, Acceptance, Race

  "Machines for Life". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com.

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• It's nice to be able to forget.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Nice, Able, Forget

  "Daft Punk: All Hail Our Robot Overlords". Interview with Jonah Weiner, www.rollingstone.com. May 21, 2013.

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

  Thomas Bangalter

  Ideas, Seems

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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

  Technology, Hands, Interesting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Thomas Bangalter

  Generations, Accepted, Wanted

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It’s always this thing where we’re constantly waiting for something that will come in electronic music that says, ‘Daft Punk sucks!’ That’s actually much more interesting and exciting than someone who is paying homage.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Interesting, Waiting, Punk

  "Daft Punk Talk 'Random Access Memories,' EDM Scene in GQ" by Emily Zemler, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 07, 2013.

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

  Thomas Bangalter

  Done, Shows, Experiments

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally accepted. Consequently, there is now a younger generation that is more focused on making great electronic music, good parties, and having fun, where there is not any more so much need for cultural and ideological statements in electronic music itself.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Fun, Party, Today

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There is indeed a level of improvisation where we can distort and shuffle the music patterns, samples, and loops in each phase of the show within fixed cue points, but at the same time there is a constant result that we are trying to achieve each night while performing and operating our system - quite similar in spirit to a broadway show for example: If you go see a musical two nights in a row, the performances are different yet similar.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Night, Two, Musical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Thomas Bangalter

  Thinking, Different, Machines

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Thomas Bangalter

  Patriotic, America, France

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Years, Musician, Generations

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I am definitely pro-European, even pro-global, and house music and electronic music has developed a network all over the world, between record shops in Berlin, Tokyo, London, Chicago, Minneapolis and L.A. That's really what I feel part of, rather than being French.

  Thomas Bangalter

  House, Chicago, Records

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We feel like we're building something aesthetically, so we like the idea of the evolution. So far, each piece of music or everything has been to expand it, instead of backtracking or trying to destroy what we have done.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Trying, Done, Evolution

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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

  Thomas Bangalter

  Dvds, Internet, Clip

  Source: pitchfork.com

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

  Thomas Bangalter

  Interesting, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Human After All was the music we wanted to make at the time we did it. We have always strongly felt there was a logical connection between our three albums, and it 's great to see that people seem to realize that when they listen now to the live show.

  Thomas Bangalter

  People, Connections, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• 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.

  Thomas Bangalter

  Country, Strong, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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