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" I am certainly not racist; I even like the British. "
Giorgio Moroder
Even
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Am
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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. "
Giorgio Moroder
Time
People
Great
" 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
Doing
Happy
" Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. "
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Better
Black
Disco
" 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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Pictures
Stuff
Manipulation
" 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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Intelligent
Happy
I Am
" 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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Myself
Me
Great
" The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. "
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See
Sound
You
" Unless you use the vocoder the way Daft Punk use it, it is very limited. When they sing it's almost human. It sounds sexy. I just used it as an effect. It wasn't because I was not able to sing; I'm not a great singer, but I had some hits as a singer, too. It's a nice effect. "
Giorgio Moroder
Nice
Sexy
You
" In film, I was surprised when I first saw the movie 'Drive.' I said, 'Oh, God. It sounds great - I love it. Wow, this could be the soundtrack from 'American Gigolo' or 'Cat People.' But I'm surprised that the director would agree with a composer to write that kind of sound. "
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Great
People
Love
" 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. "
Giorgio Moroder
Movies
Gun
Meet
" One of the most interesting things, at least for me, are the soundtracks for 'The Social Network' and 'Drive.' Basically, it's what I did in 'American Gigolo.' I could have done the music for those movies blindfolded. And one of them won an Oscar, and the other is this massive soundtrack. "
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Drive
American
Music
" My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. "
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Music
Nothing
Say
" 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
Disco
Important
Meaning
" I had an album out at exactly the same time as 'Love to Love You' called 'Einzelganger,' and it's great, all electronic. I'm using a vocoder, doing all this cut-up stuff on there, but no one knows about it. "
Giorgio Moroder
Time
Doing
Great
" 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
Problems
People
World
" I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do. "
Giorgio Moroder
Much
Think
Too Much
" Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. "
Giorgio Moroder
Dancing
Dance
People
" 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! "
Giorgio Moroder
Music
Dance
Care
" It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. "
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Difficult
Sound
More
" 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. "
Giorgio Moroder
You
Beautiful
Create
" My favorite would be 'Love to Love You' because from zero, I went to Number One. I don't think it's the best song - the best one is probably between 'Flashdance' and 'Take My Breath Away.' "
Giorgio Moroder
Breath
Think
Song
" I am reluctant to judge things without being informed. "
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Without
Informed
Judge
" I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music. "
Giorgio Moroder
Music
Rock Music
Rock
" Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best. "
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Best
Very
Special
" 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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Song
Disco
Slow
" 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. "
Giorgio Moroder
Sound
Mysterious
Kind
" Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many. "
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Business
Forgotten
Many
" I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it. "
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Large
Happy
Wanted
" One day. I was putting on a hill in Zurich, and a few hundred yards away, Diana Ross was doing a sound test at an arena for a performance that night of 'Take My Breath Away,' my song with her. That was a very nice game, an incredible feeling. "
Giorgio Moroder
Night
Song
Day
" Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had so much confidence. I knew how the bass should sound, what rhythms would work. The tempos I knew: 110 to 120 BPM. I knew they would dance in the clubs in New York or anywhere. "
Giorgio Moroder
Dance
Work
Disco