Vangelis

If I've made money from music, it was never my aim to do that. I didn't do it to become famous.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I started at the piano at the age of 4.

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.