Giorgio Moroder Quotes

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Inspirational, Dance, Disco Music

  FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 28, 2013

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• Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Free Your Mind, Want, Harmony

  FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 21, 2013

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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.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Stupid, Thinking, People

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• My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Names, Call Me

  Twitter post from Sep 16, 2014

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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.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Intelligent, Becoming, Complicated

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Sound, Acoustics, Corny

  FaceBook post by Giorgio Moroder from Nov 29, 2013

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Records, Making Money, Forgotten

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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.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Important, Want, Pops

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Art, Sound, Serious

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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.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Song, Rocks, Pops

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2013

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• I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Thinking, Musician, Coke

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Racist, British

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• I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Judging, Reluctant

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Art, Thinking, Too Much

  "A diva who defined the disco moment" By Mark Coleman, www.cnn.com. May 18, 2012.

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Art, Sound, Paper

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Song, Baby, Love You

  "A diva who defined the disco moment" By Mark Coleman, www.cnn.com. May 18, 2012.

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• 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

  Believe, Artist, America

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Wanted, Audience, Felt

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Artist, Player, Black

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Continental

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• What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.

  Giorgio Moroder

  Doe, Genius, Littles

  "Face to face: Giorgio Moroder vs Daft Punk". Interview with Tim Noakes, www.dazeddigital.com. June 7, 2013.

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Rocks, Rock Music

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

  Giorgio Moroder

  Special, Diana, Ramones

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