Giorgio Moroder Quotes

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

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.

I'm not a big disco guy.

People are embarrassed by disco, but I love it.

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

I like 'I Can't Stand the Rain.' I like it because it has a really oriental feeling to it, an 'oriental taste,' it has an essence of Asia.

Instead of the Beatles and the Stones, my mum and dad were listening to Michael Jackson, Barry White.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be in a disco band.

I grew up with go-go music. We wasn't really hip-hop fans.

In general, I love dance-pop music with some soul and a dash of R&B.

The best music to dance to is my music! Haha! I say anything that speaks to you. I personally enjoy dancing to hip-hop, R&B music, EDM/trap music.

Funk is fun. And it's also a state of mind, ... But it's all the ramifications of that state of mind. Once you've done the best you can, funk it!

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

Funk, I don't think I have anything to do with funk. I've never considered myself funky.

It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.

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'd been listening to some old '70s disco, soul stuff, and I thought, 'Let's go into the studio and do something different. Let's do something that's super unashamedly pop and fun and danceable.' 'Trouble' is what we did. It's something that wrote itself.

I think regardless of where people are from, country music is a through line.

The only dancing I did was at the discotheques. I was a very good disco dancer. I say that I learned disco dancing at the wrong places.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

The Heads were the only band on that scene that had a groove.

The sound of the '90s, to me, is a combination of soul and street - it's a feeling.

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs because people start bugging out when they realise what I'm playing.

I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.