22 Quotes by Vangelis

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

I started at the piano at the age of 4.