Daft Punk

"Sampling the traditional way gets frustrating fast: bad tuning, rigid tempos, weird textures that don’t bend. So we started recording our own source material — built for flexibility. It saves us 900 hours digging through crates. The downside? No more surprises. No more accidents. That spark of stumbling on a forgotten gem … gone. Daft Punk were the kings of that. They could turn half a second of groove into a global anthem."

"Home, hold on, if love is the answer, you're home."

"Like the legend of the phoenix All ends with beginnings What keeps the planet spinnin' The force from the beginnin' We've come too far To give up who we are So let's raise the bar And our cups to the stars She's up all night 'til the sun I'm up all night to get some She's up all night for good fun I'm up all night to get lucky"

"Remember, love's our only mission This is a journey of the soul"

"Familiar faces I've never seen Living the gold and the silver dream Making me feel like I'm seventeen And it's crystal clear that I don't ever want it to end"

"If you lose your way tonight That's how you know the magic's right"

"It's not right, it's not true, it's not right It's not how we used to do"

"Nineteen years on, every single aspect of Discovery has been pilfered time and time again, from the glossy production style to the sound of the drums. Every vocal in pop has that electronic effect on it, which I now know is called Auto-Tune. Daft Punk were incredibly prescient: play Discovery today and it sounds utterly contemporary."

"Work it harder, make it better Do it faster, makes us stronger More than ever, hour after hour Work is never over"

"Let the music in tonight Just turn on the music Let the music of your life Give life back to music"

"There is a game of love There is a game of love This is a game of love This is a game of love"

"I wanted to do an album with the sounds of the '50s, the sounds of the '60s, of the '70s, and then have a sound of the future. And I said, "Wait a second. I know the synthesizer. Why don't I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future?" And I didn't have any idea what to do but I knew I needed a click. So, we put a click on the 24-track which then was synced to the Moog modular. I knew that it could be a sound of the future but I didn't realize how much the impact would be. My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but everybody calls me Giorgio."

"Once you free your mind about a concept of harmony and of music being "correct," you can do whatever you want. So, nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do."

"There are so many things that I don't understand There's a world within me that I cannot explain Many rooms to explore, but the doors look the same I am lost, I can't even remember my name"

"He runs his scissors at the seam in the wall He cannot break it down or else he would fall One thousand lonely stars hiding in the cold Take it, oh, I don't wanna sing anymore"

"I know you don't get a chance to take a break this often I know your life is speedin' and it isn't stoppin' Here, take my shirt and just go ahead and wipe up all the Sweat, sweat, sweat"

"People are often afraid of things that sound new. Like robots."

"The idea was really having this desire for live drums, as well as questioning, really, why and what is the magic in samples? Why for the last 20 years have producers and musicians been extracting these little snippets of audio from vinyl records? What kind of magic did it contain?"

"Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it’s not moving one inch, That’s not what artists are supposed to do."

"I almost consider the character of the robots like a Marina Abramović performance art installation that lasted for 20 years"

"We tried to use these machines to express something extremely moving that a machine cannot feel, but a human can. We were always on the side of humanity and not on the side of technology."

"As much as I love this character, the last thing I would want to be, in the world we live in, in 2023, is a robot."

"We didn't decide to become robots, There was an accident in our studio. We were working on our sampler, and at exactly 9:09 a.m. on September 9, 1999, it exploded. When we regained consciousness, we discovered that we had become robots."