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" 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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" 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

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" 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. "

" My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. "

" '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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

Giorgio Moroder

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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

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" In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say. "

" I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do. "