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" I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it. "

Giorgio Moroder

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" I am reluctant to judge things without being informed. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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

" 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. "

Giorgio Moroder

" I love Lady Gaga, Rihanna - all the pop girls like Katy Perry. I think Miley Cyrus is very talented, too. Apart from the visuals, which you may like or not like, but her music is quite good, actually. 'Wrecking Ball' is quite a good song, and she sang it really nicely. "

Giorgio Moroder

" Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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

" I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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

" I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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. "

Giorgio Moroder

" It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. "

Giorgio Moroder

" '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. "

Giorgio Moroder

" I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Giorgio Moroder

" Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. "

Giorgio Moroder

" I am certainly not racist; I even like the British. "

Giorgio Moroder

" In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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

" The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. "

Giorgio Moroder

" Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many. "

Giorgio Moroder

" Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want. "

Giorgio Moroder

" Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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

" 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

" 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. "

Giorgio Moroder

" 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