Vangelis quotes

“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.”
-- Vangelis

Source : "Rosetta mission: Philae craft may have bounced during comet landing - as it happened" by Stuart Clark, James Kingsland, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2014.

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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…”
-- Vangelis

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“I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.”
-- Vangelis

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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.”
-- Vangelis

Source : "My Greek Odyssey with Alexander" by Peter Culshaw, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 06, 2005.

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“The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.”

“Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more.”

Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins

“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord. Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.”

“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”

“I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.”

“I always think back to the original movies and to those quieter moments where Luke is out in A New Hope, and there are the two suns setting. It is the equivalent, basically, of a farm boy dying to get out of his small town and do something bigger. It's those kinds of universal themes that ground this whole thing in space.”

Source : "A galaxy faraway, so close: Adam Driver on 'Star Wars: Episode VII'" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. August 15, 2014.

“Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.”

“One has always had a childhood, whatever one becomes.”

Source : Alexandre Dumas fils (2004). “Camille”, p.85, Penguin

“Let us turn to our own childhoods-no further-if we will renew our sense of remoteness, and of the mystery of change.”