Vangelis

"On music: "Scientifically, believe it or not, music drives everything, because music equals universe and universe equals 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 universa…"

"On hearing: "It’s an extremely important faculty which helps to balance the nervous system. Besides, people do not hear or see the same thing. There are specialists, especially in France, that measure…"

"We are living in a cultural dark age of musical pollution. You put the radio on, and five minutes later you need an aspirin."

"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.…"

"On electronic music: "The source is electronic, but what you do with it is the same as with acoustic instruments. Sound is sound and vibration is vibration, whether from an electronic source or an aco…"

"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."

"And whatever we find on Mars, the doors will be open to the next Odyssey, to something so many have instinctually felt for so long, something which through music I remember -- that at the dawn of crea…"