Notable quotes by Guy-Manuel De Homem-Christo from 2013 interviews
*As we all know, Guy-Man’s the king of one-liners and clever, memorable quotes. Below, I’ve put together a bunch of funny, interesting, or somewhat revealing things he’s said in various 2013 interviews. They’re not all one-liners, but they’re definitely interesting. Special thanks to thegistcali for the list of interviews.*
“What do you want to do?” Bangalter asks de Homem-Christo. “Un café? Un thé? Chocolat?”
“Strip club,” de Homem-Christo deadpans.
“Guy-Manuel is staying in a bedroom where JFK is supposed to have had his affair with Marilyn Monroe,” says Bangalter. Quips de Homem-Christo, “It puts a lot of pressure on me to do something interesting in there.”
“Artists allow people to choose what they want their reflection to be,” Bangalter muses. “If people are, OK, this track is about a good time, we’re up all night to get lucky…
De-Homem Christo: “To get laid!”
"It is human nature," de Homem-Christo agrees. "You have to de-responsible-ise yourself.”
Have you ever thought about working with Kraftwerk?
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo: No, we never work with robots.
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo on the making of Random Access Memories: “It was a really special process. Every album we’ve done is tightly linked with our lives. You cannot separate your life and your music and your job; everything’s linked. The internal, personal stuff Thomas went through during Human After All made it closer to where he was at the time, and this one feels a lot closer to me than him. We make music together, but this one took me to some special depths, getting really close to what I was going through personally. I’ve never been too technical; Thomas is more the technician. This album has more soul."
Is there ever a moment where you feel like you have to put the fucking cape back on?
Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo: “Fucking what?”
"I don’t know EDM artists or the albums. At first I thought it was all just one guy, someone called DJ EDM.”
“If our first band Darlin’ had stayed together, we would have wanted to be like the Strokes.”
“We were still children when we met, so we formed each other. There’s so much that is unspoken. It’s like an odd couple. Some couples will argue until they die, but some don’t speak and enjoy looking at the sunset, you know?”
The filter is fast in French House. What was that again?
Guy-Man: “It was just filter. Waoh-waoh-waoh-waoh!”
Thomas: The tricks came from Chicago and Detroit. We liked it and attacked it head on, but quickly got bored of it. The journalists named it French House.
Guy-Man: “French Fries!”
“I actually met my first girl on the Minitel site of Inrocks, 36 15 Elliott! She was a fan of the La’s, I was a fan of the Stone Roses - we were just a few who were interested in these young British bands.”
“California is great because there, everything is accepted: Gay culture, smoking weed, aliens! [laughs] Europe is stuck in the past, in history. Things move eventually, but it is slow.”
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