Best Daft Punk Quotes

#1. The bands you like and know that are French are always outsiders in the French music industry - Daft Punk, Air.

Laurent Brancowitz

#2. When I want something, I want it now, and Daft Punk taught me to be more patient.

Pedro Winter

#3. A Maddox boy will take you all the way to the edge, but if you go with him, he'll follow you anywhere ...

Jamie McGuire

#4. Better a child should be ignorant of a thousand truths than have consecrated in its heart a single lie.

John Ruskin

#5. Because Islam doesn't, he said, his voice toneless,

Hilary Mantel

#6. In another life, I could be a personal shopper.

Jane Rosenthal

#7. I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

Tiesto

#8. Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#9. Unless you use the vocoder the way Daft Punk use it, it is very limited. When they sing it's almost human. It sounds sexy. I just used it as an effect. It wasn't because I was not able to sing; I'm not a great singer, but I had some hits as a singer, too. It's a nice effect.

Giorgio Moroder

#10. Work It Harder Make It Better
Do It Faster, Makes Us stronger
More Than Ever Hour After
Our Work Is Never Over
-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, lyrics and music by Daft Punk

Daft Punk

#11. At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

Pedro Winter

#12. I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.

Skrillex

#13. I think we're socialized out of being women, and then we have to find our way back to it. That's hard to do.

Olympia Dukakis

#14. I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

Henry Rollins

#15. When it comes to electronic music, I started listening to a lot of Daft Punk, way before I knew what house music was, and then progressed into a lot of Steve Angello, Eric Prydz, Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso, and Laidback Luke.

Avicii

#16. Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

Danger Mouse

#17. As long as you say there is no hope, then there will be no hope, but if you go down and take a stance, then there will be hope.

Asmaa Mahfouz

#18. And I know I need to invite him over for dinner, because there's no question. This is serious.

Tamara Ireland Stone

#19. My wife isn't very bright. The other day she was at the store, and just as she was heading for our car, someone stole it! I said, "Did you see the guy that did it?" She said, "No, but I got the license plate."

Rodney Dangerfield

#20. I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

Corin Tucker

#21. Daft Punk's 'One More Time' remains one of my favorite 'getting ready to go out tonight' songs.

Aslaug Magnusdottir

#22. I'm a big champion of people doing things outside the system.

Felicia Day

#23. The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?

Katherine Losse

#24. Beware of finding what you're looking for.
[A favorite aphorism he often used.]

Richard Hamming

#25. Many people think if you say "no" you just do this to negotiate a better deal, and they didn't understand that Daft Punk really meant "no" because they didn't want to do certain things.

Pedro Winter

#26. But as we do not light up our houses with our brightest lamps for all comers, so neither did she emit from her eyes their brightest sparks till special occasions for such shining had arisen.

Anthony Trollope

#27. Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

Pedro Winter

#28. Daft Punk would not exist if there was no technology.

Thomas Bangalter

#29. Some people started to call me "the King of No" because with Daft Punk we were saying "no" to everything.

Pedro Winter

#30. I'd always much rather be second choice on anything because it makes you work harder.

Noel Clarke

#31. The techniques have galloped ahead of the concepts. We have moved away from studying the complexity of the organism; from processes and organisation to composition.

James Black