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" I am reluctant to judge things without being informed. "
Giorgio Moroder
Without
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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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Myself
Me
Great
" 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. "
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Night
Song
Day
" 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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Dead
Country
Wife
" 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. "
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Nice
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You
" I am certainly not racist; I even like the British. "
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British
Am
" Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. "
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Dancing
Dance
People
" 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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Sound
Mysterious
Kind
" Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want. "
Giorgio Moroder
You
Want
Music
" 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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Great
Think
Beautiful
" 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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Music
Dance
Care
" 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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Disco
Important
Meaning
" 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
" I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures. "
Giorgio Moroder
Pictures
Stuff
Manipulation
" I was involved with a sports car called Cizeta-Moroder, which was the first 16-cylinder car, beautiful. I think we sold about eight cars, and then in '92 the economic crash came, and we had to close the shop. "
Giorgio Moroder
Think
Beautiful
Sports
" 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
" 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. "
Giorgio Moroder
Great
People
Love
" 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. "
Giorgio Moroder
I Am
Doing
Happy
" 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
" Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. "
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Better
Black
Disco
" My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. "
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Music
Nothing
Say
" 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 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. "
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Time
Doing
Great
" 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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Luxury
Painting
Art
" I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do. "
Giorgio Moroder
Much
Think
Too Much
" 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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Movies
Gun
Meet
" Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best. "
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Best
Very
Special
" 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
" I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure. "
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Baby
Endure
Will
" I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music. "
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Music
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Rock