Keyboardist

🇬🇧Brian Cox

Science

1968–2008

"We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself."

🇬🇧Alan Parsons

Music

b. 1948

"Alan Parsons in the Internet Movie Data Base"

🇬🇧Brian Wilson

Music

1943–2025

"It's funny how people are pickin' up on our music now, you know? I think it's wonderful that people like our music."

🇦🇹Joe Zawinul

Music

1932–2007

"I ain’t scared of Beethoven or nobody when it comes to composing."

"You can give him a ukulele and he can make it sound like a Stradivarius."

🇺🇸Suzanne Ciani

Music

b. 1946

"It had to go all the way out to the west coast and come all the way back to the east coast every time it needed to be fixed."

🇬🇷Vangelis

Music

1943–2022

"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."

🇺🇸Sun Ra

Music

1914–1993

"Proper evaluations of words and letters in their phonetic and associated sense can bring the people of earth to the clear light of pure cosmic wisdom."

"Old rules and habits have to be rejected and dismissed so that something new can be created."

🇫🇷Jean-Michel Jarre

Music

b. 1948

"I think that you have to seriously have fun, or taking serious things in a light way and obviously, for me, before all, music is made of fun and pleasure and excitement."

🇬🇧Steve Hogarth

Music

b. 1956

"'I’m getting paid 10p per copy of every album I’m selling and they’re selling it for 15 quid. That’s outrageous but it’s quite typical."

🇨🇦Geddy Lee

Music

b. 1953

"Music is all about wanting to be better at it."

🇬🇧Brian Cox (physicist)

Science

1968–2008

"We have written the evidence of our existence onto the surface of our planet. Our civilisation has become a beacon, that identifies our planet as home to life."

🇺🇸Jackson Browne

Music

b. 1948

"It's such a clever innocence with which you do your sorceryAs if somehow the years just bow and let that young girl go freeI thought I was a child, until you turned and smiled"