Vangelis Quotes

When synthesizers appeared everyone was a composer suddenly.

I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus.

There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

I got on a bit of a rollercoaster looking into how Herbie Hancock used to make his tunes, and I remember a picture of Jean-Michel Jarre at one of his concerts and seeing the Memorymoog. When I heard the sound it I was like, 'Arrrgh, I really need that.'

Everyone making electronic music has the same tool kits and templates. You listen, and you feel like it can be done on an iPad. If everybody knows all the tricks, it's no more magic.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I agree with the rest of the band, that a truly synthesized sound isn't really what I would want to go for.

I've been really excited about some new cutting edge electronic music and technology.

Ironically I think this is what sparked my interest in and passion for the NOAH, which is capable of creating all these old weird and wonderful sounds.

I think the indie-rock world is very creative. They're always looking for something new, and I think of all the instruments we have in the world, the ones that are the most creative and interesting are the electronic ones. There are so many sounds and plug-ins you can use.

I find it hard to get excited by just a sound. I have to have a song there, then I'll find what used I can make of that sound within the song.

My brother makes beats, and I DJ.

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It created a new kind of musician.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.

At the age of 12, I got free pieces of software in a box of cereal which allowed me to make music, like really early demos, and then I just never looked back.

There is nothing wrong in electronic music or synthesised music.

A lot of the early Washed Out material was done on a couple of synthesizers that did most of the work, but that's the great thing about synths - you can recreate sounds or make an entire record with just one piece of gear.

In my solo work on my own albums, I have used voice synthesizers and vocoders quite a lot in connection with orchestral instruments.

If you hear a New Order track that's mostly electronic, it's generally come about through one person sitting at a computer and programming it.

And EDM music grabbed my ear and got my attention and I started realizing that the computer was, in the same way that the saxophone was invented in the late 1800s and guitar in the 1930s, an instrument.

When I hear something new, mostly in rhythms, I often find it interesting to recreate it in a studio in a completely different way.