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On instruments: "Well, to be honest I don’t think it’s necessary to find out how pieces of equipment work. I would prefer to know how music works, or… - Vangelis
" "On instruments: "Well, to be honest I don’t think it’s necessary to find out how pieces of equipment work. I would prefer to know how music works, or how my body and my mind work. After all, it’s more useful to know how to drive a car than it is to know what makes it go. Of course it’s important to know certain things about a machine, but I don’t need to be able to build my own synthesizer. It strikes me that the people who do build them don’t know how to play them, so l’d rather find out more about playing".
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About Vangelis
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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Pen Names:
Βαγγέλης
Native Name:
Ευάγγελος Οδυσσέας Παπαθανασίου
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Βαγγέλης Παπαθανασίου
Alternative Names:
Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou
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Vangelis O. Papathanassiou
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I understand the world through music and I believe that music shapes the universe. Mankind has always had a sense of wonder about space, has always been curious. It's something that's implanted in us. It's natural to want to travel and discover. It is, always has been, and is always going to be like this. We are space.
On albums and commercialism: "For every album I’ve ever made, I’ve written many times more music than has actually been released, and the way I choose which music appears is almost totally random, but one thing I have never done is to make music for the sake of commercialism... I don’t think it’s possible to guarantee commercial success for an album anyway, because nobody really knows what is commercial and what isn’t. Even if I went out of my way to make an album that was more accessible to the public, that would not guarantee its commercial success".
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