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1943–2022 Greece
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou (29 March 1943 – 17 May 2022), professionally known as Vangelis, was a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, pop rock, and orchestral music. He was best known for his Academy Award–winning score for the film Chariots of Fire.
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I function as a channel through which music emerges from the chaos of noise.
The New Age music: "gave the opportunity for untalented people to make very boring music".
On music: "Scientifically, believe it or not, music drives everything, because music equals universe and universe equals music".
The number of interviews I've ever given could be counted on the fingers of my hands.
We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin.
Music for me is life, I stay in my studio until ten or eleven at night and I record every day. Not for money or for albums - I just compose music.
Mythology, science, space exploration, these are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I write.
On happiness: "For me, it’s harmony resulting from the cosmic wave, not the happiness resulting from the social wave"
If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous. I absolutely respect and I believe I serve music.
Vangelis has been writing and performing electronic music for three decades and suggests that it is perhaps the only genre - with the exception of "pure" classical music - that can comunicate universally.
On working alone: "I enjoy working alone. I know myself, and I know what I want... and all this allows me to create my music before my thoughts can interrupt".
On concerts: "Concerts are nonsense. They create many problems: money, interests – it is hardly spontaneous. I want to feel the same pleasure that my audience experiences, otherwise it’s not honest"
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