Giorgio Moroder
Giorgio Moroder
Giovanni Giorgio Moroder is an Italian singer, songwriter, DJ and record producer. Moroder is frequently credited with pioneering Italo disco and electronic dance music...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionMusic Producer
Date of Birth26 April 1940
CountryItaly
special diana ramones
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
continental
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.
important want pops
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.
judging reluctant
I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.
stupid thinking dancing
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.
records forgotten making-money
Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.
names call-me
My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.
acoustics sound corny
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
intelligent becoming complicated
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.
free-your-mind want harmony
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.
inspirational dance disco-music
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.
bargain car cost designed japanese says sports wants
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.
bass became clubs dance disco knew rhythms success work york
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.
bass breath change quite terrible
'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.