Top 23 Quotes & Sayings by Vangelis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Greek composer Vangelis.

Last updated on September 18, 2024.

Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou, known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek musician, composer, songwriter and producer of electronic, progressive, ambient, and classical orchestral music. He was best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire (1981), as well as for composing scores to the films Blade Runner (1982), Missing (1982), Antarctica (1983), The Bounty (1984), 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992), and Alexander (2004), and for the use of his music in the 1980 PBS documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.

Greek - Composer | Born: March 29, 1943

Source: Wikipedia

I prefer to have the music as pure as possible. I don't want to say, 'Oh yes, this is good. This is not good; I have to do it again.' I don't want to do it again. I want to do it once. It's no good, I do another one.

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My main language was music, and my teacher was nature.

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You can never repeat certain things. It's only once in a lifetime.

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Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.

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Computers are extremely helpful and amazing for a multitude of scientific areas, but for me, when it comes to creation, they are insufficient and slow. Therefore, all of my efforts are to stay away from that beast.

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Every day I paint, and every day I compose music.

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Science and mythology were the topics which fascinated me since my early childhood.

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I realised that success and pure creativity are not very compatible. The more successful you become, the more you become a product of something that generates money. Instead of being able to move forward freely and do what you really wish, you find yourself stuck and obliged to repeat yourself and your previous success.

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I started at the piano at the age of 4.

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I think it was inevitable that I get into synthesizer music. I always wanted to deal with sound more than anything else. I couldn't get the sounds I wanted out of the piano.

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I've been composing and performing for as long as I can remember.

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If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

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The avant-garde feel important, but they hardly understand what they're doing.

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My father was in property, but he was a great lover of music.

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I absolutely respect and I believe I serve music.

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Success is sweet and treacherous.

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Music dominates the universe. It is the prime force. It has given shape to space.

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If you look for truth, you have to be courageous.

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I'm a composer. I know nothing about money and commercial stuff. I just write music.

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We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.

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Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.

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I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog.

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I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

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