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" Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. "
Giorgio Moroder
Dancing
Dance
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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 was in Studio 54 one time; it was great. But I'm not a discotheque guy. Sometimes, if I had a new demo, I went to some discotheques to check it out - see how the reactions of the people were. But just to dance, I rarely did that. "
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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 achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure. "
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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 the early '80s, my sound - especially that mysterious kind of synthesized sound that was used so much - every relatively cheap TV show eventually had it because it's not expensive. It's just one guy doing the whole soundtrack. So it was overdone. "
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" Now, the DJ becomes a star in itself because of the way he programs the songs with lows and then highs and then slowing it down. The big DJs, like Tiesto and Deadmau5 and all those guys, they are very, very creative. "
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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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" Dance music doesn't care where you live. It doesn't care who your friends are. It doesn't care how much money you make. It doesn't care if you're 74 or if you are 24 because... 74 is the new 24! "
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" The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. "
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" I am reluctant to judge things without being informed. "
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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 wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures. "
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" I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work. "
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" I like the sounds of EDM; the guys create new sounds, beautiful sounds. The melodies, it's a little less. I like the kind of melodies I did with Donna Summer, or 'Flashdance,' where you have a verse, a chorus - a song setup. "
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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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" I am certainly not racist; I even like the British. "
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" I listen to the group Disclosure; they have great sounds. Maybe not as adventurous as Skrillex. I think the key thing is to have those beautiful sounds... the amazing sounds of Skrillex are almost phenomenal. "
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" A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background. "
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" When I'm dead, somebody can write my biography. I wrote a national hymn, an anthem, which I don't want to present to that country. But I have a deal with my wife - when I'm dead, she should offer it, because then I'm safe. "
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" I set a Google Alert for myself, and now I'm seeing people say my music influenced them and how great it is all the time. Sometimes I listen to this stuff that's supposed to be influenced by me, and I can't hear myself in it. But I'd rather they say it than not. "
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" Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. "
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