Vangelis Quotes

I've been writing and composing songs since I was 5 years old.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

The creative part for me is making songs, and that's what I really love the most, and that's what I've always done for every band I've ever had.

Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

What's cool about making music is when you create a record, it comes from somewhere.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.

Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.

I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.

I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

I'd like to play for you one of my compositions, my only composition.

Composition is definitely what I'm born to do, and it came last.

Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.

I'm very strong creatively, in my music.

If I try to write a song, I will completely fail to write a song. But if I'm just holding my guitar and I just start humming, then I'll have a song in an hour.

I just can't wait to continue creating music.

I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.

Composing music is hard work.

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

Acting is awesome, but I'm really, really able to express myself creatively in music.

I'll make music as long as I can sing and stand up and hold a guitar and I feel like doing this.