🎤 Jean-Félix Lalanne Interview
Meeting with the Composer and Guitarist
📝 Interview Context
This interview was conducted as part of a university project on music careers and particularly on singer-songwriter-composers, by a musicology student at the University of Human Sciences in Strasbourg.
🎸 The Artist
Name: Jean-Félix Lalanne
Age: 36 years old (at the time of the interview)
Instrument: Guitar
Styles: Classical, Jazz, Rock, Country, etc.
Jean-Félix Lalanne and Marcel Dadi
💭 Musical Composition
What does composition mean to you?
"Freedom and the possibility of daydreaming!"
What qualities are required to compose?
"Humility, rigor, knowledge."
What are the advantages and disadvantages of being a composer?
Advantages: freedom of expression.
Disadvantages: the irregularity of material life.
Disadvantages: the irregularity of material life.
How much time do you devote to music?
"All my time."
🎯 The Creative Process
In what context do you compose (time of day, by inspiration, by obligation, ...)?
"By inspiration and by commission, which is unfortunately often incompatible."
What were your influences to make it a profession?
"From Marcel Dadi to Ennio Morricone."
💼 The Musician's Profession
Can you succeed alone or thanks to relationships?
"You can't do anything in life without relationships."
Can you advise me for this profession?
"Patience, rigor and never make music thinking about what it will become."
Could you give me an idea of what it brings in (concerts, record sales, royalties, ...)?
"The range is wide...!"
"Thank you for devoting some of your time to me, Thank you Jean-Félix"