Vangelis Quotes

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Vangelis

Profession : Composer

Birth : March 29, 1943

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I started at the piano at the age of 4.

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

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I absolutely respect and I believe I serve music.

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

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Success is sweet and treacherous.

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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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