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Mike Oldfield

Birthdate: 15. May 1953

Michael Gordon Oldfield is an English multi-instrumentalist and composer. His work blends progressive rock with world, folk, classical, electronic, ambient, and new-age music. His biggest commercial success is the 1973 album Tubular Bells – which launched Virgin Records and became a hit in America after its opening was used as the theme for the horror film The Exorcist. He recorded the 1983 hit single "Moonlight Shadow" and a rendition of the Christmas piece "In Dulci Jubilo".

Oldfield has released 26 albums, most recently a sequel to his 1975 album Ommadawn titled Return to Ommadawn, on 20 January 2017. Wikipedia

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Quotes Mike Oldfield

„Some are tricks of the light
You'll never know
Make a flickering midnight
Light into a glow…“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)

„Treat me like I'm evil
Freeze me till I'm cold
Beat me till I'm feeble
Grind me till I'm old
Wire me till I'm tired
Push me like I fall
Treat me like a criminal,
just a shadow on the wall!“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Crises (1983)

„"Twas grace that taught
My heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev'd;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ'd!"
And I want to feel sun on my face,
And I feel a shadow in its place,
With the sunlight shines through cloud,
When we're standing free, proud.“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)

Fear, Feeling, Appearance, Sun

„Do we have to be so distant
How can you be so unreal?
What's the reason for hiding and
How this crying make you feel?“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)

Feeling, Distant, Cry

„Don't wanna know your name
You're just my lover
Just wanna spend the night
Walking beside you on the water
You look like my lover
But you're words are cold
You say words like him
But thinking has made you grow old.“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Children of the Sun (1969)

Lovers, Thinking, Water, Night

„I watch the boats go by
As the evening colours of the sand
The rain is bringing tears
From my lover's land
I watch the silver stars
melt in love with the sea
I cry to the wind:
– Bring back my lover to me!“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Children of the Sun (1969)

Love, Star, Lovers, Tear

„In this world, everything has a pulse or a vibration. This sound is unique to each living or non-living thing and in itself creates a music that no-one can hear. I believe that this has a very powerful resonance with, and a deep effect on, our lives. What would happen if we took this further and applied it to bigger things, more powerful things; like an entire solar system or galaxy say, what would that sound like?
Musica Universalis is the ancient theory that every celestial body, the sun, the moon and the stars, has an inner music. This is a harmonic and mathematical concept derived from the movements of the planets in the solar system. The music created is inaudible to the human ear.
Music of the Spheres is my interpretation of this theory. Every planet and every star; the whole universe has music within it that no-one can hear. This is what it would sound like if it was set free. This is Music of the Spheres.“

— Mike Oldfield

from the introduction to Music of the Spheres

World, Music, Star, Mathematics

„I feel a rush in the air tonight,
I can feel the Earth moving.
Love is beacon, a guiding light,
can't you feel the Earth moving?“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Earth Moving (1989)

Love, Feeling, Light

„The writings on the wall at North Point
Speak to a silent room
They shut the bars down, leave you to the gloom…“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Islands (1987)

„She gives me hope
When there's nothing but pain;
I can't explain it:
Two different leaves
But the branch is the same…
Forever let it be!
She takes the rain…“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Earth Moving (1989)

„Will-power, give me back some to survive,
One more hour and I'm coming alive…
I can see the light!
And there's blue sky breaking
Through the edge of the night…
I can see the light!“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Earth Moving (1989)

„Hey, cool princess
With your eyes hanging
The milk of the moon
Hey, pretty princess
Take me down to your cave in the dawn
And you're gonna be a queen
When the stars water
Heaven with tears
And you gonna love me
When all our
Golden lands are free.“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Children of the Sun (1969)

Love, Star, Tear, Water

„You can't speak, you can't sleep,
You daren't move, you're confused.
You never talk, you can't walk
You can't feel, you're not real…“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Earth Moving (1989)

„Heaven and Earth are turning
Round the Earth fire is burning.
Sheltered from the cruel storm
Peace on Earth is new born“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, The Millennium Bell (1999)

„You're out in the cold,
Sometimes,
As far as you can see,
Misty.
You want to run
Into the sun,
The road is lost,
Sand shifty.
But suddendly, out of the blue,
Some kind of magic
Pushes you through!
You don't know when,
How or why,
But someday can take off, fly!“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Tr3s Lunas (2002)

„You know it's not too late to leave tomorrow,
'cause I know where I'm going…
I am building a bridge to Paradise!“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Earth Moving (1989)

„You're the one who's nearly
Breaking my heart;
Had your chance
You just threw it all away.
Living in a world that
You could never be a part of,
And now is a time to walk away.“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Tubular Bells III (1998)

World, Chance, Time, Heart

„Standing in a new space,
Waving at the sun…
So you probably back in darkness
To where I belong.
Just by being with you
Pictures flow out of my mind…
Have we danced before
Long ago or in another time?“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Elements - The Best of Mike Oldfield (1986)

Time, Sun, Dance

„I'm half a crazy man
Waiting for confirmation;
Signs keep are changing
And I need some more information.“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Discovery (1984)

Change, Waiting

„To whole room her eyes are numb,
As she reads from a true love story.
From the pages of a book her lover comes,
Her heart bleeds, it's a true love story.“

— Mike Oldfield

Song lyrics, Earth Moving (1989)

Love, Books, Lovers, Reading

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