Giorgio Moroder famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Dance #People #Dancing
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
The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Art #Sound #Serious
I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Racist #British
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Sound #Acoustics #Corny
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
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
My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Names #Call Me
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
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.
-- Giorgio Moroder
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Special #Diana #Ramones
I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Wanted #Audience
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
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

#Mind #Want #Harmony
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

#Pushing #Doe #Genius
Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Artist #Player #Black
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
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
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
I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Judging
I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Art #Thinking #Too Much
I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.
-- Giorgio Moroder

#Rocks #Rock Music
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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