Rob Sheffield Quotes

Donna Summer was such a genius.

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

They call me a legend in my own time, because there were so many queens gone that I'm one of the few queens left from the '70s and the '80s.

I loved disco music, and I still count Donna Summer as one of my favorites of all time.

Who doesn't love Donna Summer's music? It was part of my childhood, always heard around the house.

Although I grew up as a fan of the culture from the disco D.J. era as a young kid and hearing the beginnings of hip-hop, I'm hearing it all from another borough in Brooklyn.

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

The first record I ever danced to in a grown-up disco was Donna Summer's 'A Love Trilogy'. I danced for the full 15 minutes and I thought to myself, 'This is it, this is what it's all about.'

When disco came around the first time, there was this real core of progressive thinking and a positive lyrical content - about freedom, the possibilities of love, change and expression.

Donna Summer was one of the strongest female singers in pop music. She was very underrated as a vocalist and a writer, and her songbook is just outrageous.

There's not another lip-synch song on the planet, in the history of lip-synching songs, that has been lip-synched more than 'I Will Survive.'

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

I was going to Studio 54 when I was 12 years old. It's true. It's crazy.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

You're looking at the Bee Gees right now.

One disco, one soft ball game, one lost love, one gay pride rally at a time.

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

I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

Pete Dj Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972.

The Bee Gees no longer exist.

The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

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 like music that is upbeat, such as Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars. Or anything disco - I will listen to that, too.