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" I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do. "
Giorgio Moroder
Much
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" 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.' "
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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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" Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved. "
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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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" Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. "
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" My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. "
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" 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 would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it. "
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" I am certainly not racist; I even like the British. "
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" 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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" It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. "
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" 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
Sexy
You
" 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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" 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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" 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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" I designed a sports car, the Cizeta-Moroder, with Marcello Gandini from Lamborghini; he did the Countach, of course. The Cizeta cost $600,000, but we could bargain - if a Japanese businessman says he wants it for three, fine. "
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" The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so 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. "
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" 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. "
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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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" Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want. "
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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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" Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. "
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