Jean-Michel Jarre Quotes

Music is organized sound.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

Music is about depth. Music is about harmony. Music is about notes and tones.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.

I really love things with melody.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

I always liked melody.

Music is the universal language.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Music is the silence between the notes.

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

Music would lose its charm were not dissonance interspersed at frequent intervals. The closer a composer can come to discord without actually entering it in the score, the more pleasing will be his composition when given life through musical instruments.

Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

I didn't aim at anything except good music.

Music is so unpredictable, but it's universal.

What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning is the melody, the notes, the rhythm - music for the sake of its own beauty, with nothing more required to express itself.

I really like melodies.