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I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
British
Racist
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I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Rock Music
Rocks
Admit
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I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Judging
Reluctant
Judge
Informed
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I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Art
Thinking
Too Much
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My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Call Me
Names
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Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Dance
Inspirational
Disco
Disco Music
People
Music Always People
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The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.
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Art
Disco
Serious
Sound
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My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Continental
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Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.
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Artist
Black
Disco
Player
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Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
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Diana
Ramones
Special
Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Diana Ross
Phil
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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 / Record Producer
Audience
Felt
Wanted
Be Happy
Large Audience
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It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Acoustics
Corny
Difficult
Sound
Acoustic
Instrument
Least
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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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Disco
Pops
Rhythm
Rocks
Song
Slow
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Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Music
Harmony
Mind
Want
Once
Music Your Mind
Being
Free
You
Concept
Music Mind Your
Correct
Whatever
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Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Forgotten
Making Money
Records
Record
Tends
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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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Baby
Endure
Love You
Song
Achieved
Love Will Feel
Love Feel Will
To Love
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Disco
Important
Pops
Want
Particularly
Meaning Of
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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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Computer
Manipulation
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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
America
Artist
Believe
Hardly
Launch
New Artist
Nowadays
So Much Money
Sums
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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 / Record Producer
Digital
Luxury
Advanced
Art Work Painting
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Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Art
Paper
Sound
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What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops - that's easy - but to do the effects he's a genius.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Doe
Genius
Littles
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'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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Terri
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I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Coke
Musician
Thinking
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Dancing
People
Stupid
Thinking
Stupid World People
Avoid
World Problems People
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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 / Record Producer
Becoming
Complicated
Intelligent
I Am Doing Know
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Once you free your mind about the concept of harmony and of music being correct, you can do whatever you want. So nobody told me what to do, and there was no preconception of what to do.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Free Your Mind
Harmony
Want
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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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Zero
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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 / Record Producer
Dance
Dance Music
How Much
How Much Money
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Love Time Great
Electronic
Exactly The Same
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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 / Record Producer
Cruise
Gun
Producer
Sees
Tom
Tom Cruise
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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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Crash
Shop
Sold
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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 / Record Producer
Adventurous
Disclosure
Phenomenal
Great Amazing Beautiful
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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 / Record Producer
Djs
Lows
Slowing
Dj
Highs
Programs
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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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Anthem
Biography
Hymn
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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 / Record Producer
Chorus
Summer
Melodies
Setup
Verse
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Sports
Cost
Fine
Bargain
Designed
Japanese
Says
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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 / Record Producer
One Time
Reactions
Time Great People
Check
Demo
Rarely
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Arena
Diana
Yards
Diana Ross
Test
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Expensive
Just One
Mysterious
Cheap
Overdone
Soundtrack
Tv Show
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Google
Time Great Music
Alert
Time Music Great
Influenced
They Say
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Gaga
Visuals
Love Good Music
Rihanna
Apart
Ball
Talented
Good Song
Lady
Lady Gaga
Sang
Nicely
Perry
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Agree
Cat
Gigolo
Love God Great
Oh God
Soundtrack
Surprised
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Daft
Punk
Sexy
Effect
Singer
Hits
Limited
Sing
Sounds
Unless
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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 / Record Producer
Disco
Melody
Nile
Hit
Big Hit
Concept
Guys
Rodgers
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Gigolo
Interesting Things
Massive
Music Movies Me
Network
Soundtrack
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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.
Giorgio Moroder / Record Producer
Bass
Clubs
Disco
Concentrated
Hits
Rhythms
Tempos
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