Giorgio Moroder quotes

Giorgio Moroder is an Italian music producer, songwriter, and DJ, renowned as a pioneer of electronic dance music. His innovative work with synthesizers shaped the sound of disco and influenced generations of artists. He has won multiple Academy Awards and Grammys for his contributions to music and film. Here are 22 of his quotes:

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

Giorgio Moroder

Disco is music for dancing, and I know that the people will always want to dance.

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 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

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

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

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

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

Giorgio Moroder

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

Giorgio Moroder

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

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

Giorgio Moroder

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

Giorgio Moroder

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

Giorgio Moroder

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

Giorgio Moroder

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

Giorgio Moroder

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

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

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