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Posted: Nov. 12 2005, 01:06 |
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You’ll find an interesting discussion about this in the Classical FM Tubular Bells III interview, September 27, 1998, transcribed by Rob Miles.
In it Mike says, “I like big landscapes of orchestral music, the bigger the better. I mean I always love the Sibelius' 5th Symphony last movement.”
One key question he was asked: “Yeah, but I haven't really asked you this fairly basic question, we've been so busy talking about other things: how much does classical music mean to you? And how much of an inspiration is it to you in your work.”
Mike: "Well, in my formative years it was everything to me, but I had a strange mixture of music from very hard rock like Led Zeppelin to Bob Dylan, the Beatles, folk music, Irish music... Classical music always seemed to me to have that integrity and depth of emotion and spirituality that I just didn't ever hear anywhere else, and that's not all classical music, there's a certain small percentage of it which I could relax to and feel, you know, everything is all right with the world, and at one with myself and at one with the universe, God, whatever you want to call it. I could only get that from classical music. And I was also able to focus like a microscope on it, see exactly how it was built up."
In 1976 Mike was asked, “Do you like the music that is being made nowdays?” and answered, “Not very much. My favorite are the folk bands. My favorite now are The Chieftains and Planxty. I have heard with much pleasure too some parts from Berlioz (Requiem).” From: Mike Oldfield: I Think I Am Able To Show With Music What A Human Being From The Twentieth Century Is, Vincente Romero - Disco Expres (Spanish magazine) January 23, 1976.
Finally, in Mike Oldfield on Amarok, H & SR Magazine, March, 1991, he said, “The last album I really liked was Robbie Robertson's - he's got a very gritty down-to-earth croaky voice and very good production. People like him aren't aiming at anything except performing just because they love to perform.”
“Oldfield himself rarely buys albums these days, and although not a jazz fan has been spared constant and unsatisfactory flipping back and forth between Radio 1 and Capital while driving by the advent of Jazz FM. He is keen on Steve Winwood and Peter Gabriel, and thinks Phil Collins is a great drummer who's turning out material which is now much too commercial.”
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