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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. "
Giorgio Moroder
Luxury
Painting
Art
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" Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. "
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Black
Disco
" That big hit 'Get Lucky' is a disco song - not only the melody and the whole concept, but we had one of the great disco guys and one of the best guitarists ever, Nile Rodgers, to play on it. So that's great disco, but a modern disco, because it has great vocoders and synthesizers. "
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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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" 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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Song
Day
" 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 am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do. "
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Doing
Happy
" 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
" 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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You
Beautiful
Create
" 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
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Slow
" 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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Time
People
Great
" 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
" 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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Breath
Think
Song
" I am certainly not racist; I even like the British. "
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Even
British
Am
" I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do. "
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Much
Think
Too Much
" Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want. "
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You
Want
Music
" 'Take My Breath Away' had that interesting bass line, which I hear quite often. It had that terrible change of key, which Terri Nunn hated, but I loved. "
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Interesting
Change
Loved
" 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
" I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music. "
Giorgio Moroder
Music
Rock Music
Rock
" 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 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. "
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Think
Beautiful
Sports
" 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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Star
Down
Way
" 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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Problems
People
World
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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 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
" 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
" 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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Sports
Cost
Car
" The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. "
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See
Sound
You