Giorgio Moroder Quotes

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

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

  Giorgio Moroder

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

  Giorgio Moroder

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

  Giorgio Moroder

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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

  Giorgio Moroder

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

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• I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Giorgio Moroder (20)

Birth:	26th April, 1940
Nationality:	Italian
Profession:	Composer, Disc Jockey, Lyricist, Record Producer, Singer

About

Giovanni Giorgio Moroder was born in Urtijëi, South Tyrol, Italy. He is an Italian singer, songwriter, composer, DJ, and record producer. He is frequently credited with pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music. He produced singles for Donna Summer during the late-1970s disco era, including "Bad Girls", "Last Dance", "Love to Love You Baby", "No More Tears, "Dim All the Lights", "MacArthur Park", "Hot Stuff", "On the Radio", and "I Feel Love". He also composed the soundtrack for the film Midnight Express, which won an Academy Award and contained the international hit "Chase". He has stated that the work of which he is most proud is Berlin's "Take My Breath Away". This song and "Flashdance... What a Feeling" earned him the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1986 and 1983.

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