Giorgio Moroder's Quotes

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.

The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.

Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid.