Vangelis Quotes

Greece, Musician
March 29, 1943 – May, 19, 2022.

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou, known professionally as Vangelis, was a Greek musician and composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music. He is best known for his Academy Award-winning score to Chariots of Fire, also composing scores for the films Blade Runner, Missing, Antarctica, The Bounty, 1492: Conquest of Paradise, and Alexander, and the use of his music in the PBS documentary Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan.

Also known as Composer

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 Aphrodite's Child
- Age
- Dark
- Musical
I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

Vangelis Aphrodite's Child
- Work
- Chaos
- Function

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 Aphrodite's Child
I am merely a conduit, a kind of big hairy tool. I am just a plastic funnel connected to a Moog.

Vangelis Aphrodite's Child
- Kind
- Bigs
- Tools