Giorgio Moroder Quotes

My music is a direct reflection of the eclectic person I am. I don't like to be stuck in an R&B box.

I'm an untrained musician. Untrained musicians don't really have any music theory, they don't have a lot of rules. We break the rules, but it's mostly because we don't know what the rules are. It's easy for us to go to certain places, so I'm not surprised that a lot of people were amused by my songwriting style.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

Any talk of 'craft' makes me laugh. My music looks outward; it does not gaze upon itself in admiration. Artisanal is for cheesemakers. I don't know anything about music theory. Every time I approach my guitar, it's like the first time. There's no craft in that.

I make music with no boundaries.

I love to play guitar. I've never really been the type of guitar player that goes, 'I'll only play this style of music or that thing.'

Growing up in a band is weird - you get stuck hanging on to what it is you think you are. But what I took into Depeche was that punk ethic, that you don't have to be accomplished to be a musician. If you've got ideas, you can do this.

Maybe the biggest thing that I've learned musically is that anything is possible. Things can work when maybe they don't seem like they can.

If you approach an opera as though it were something that always went a certain way, that's what you get. I approach an opera as though I didn't know it.

I don't always have to be on what is the newest in music is. I'm slowly educating myself in music. For me, I feel more free in not knowing everything in what I'm doing. You can start making up too many rules for yourself. It should just be love and fun and feeling good.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

I never excluded any genre on my first record.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

I've never played it safe on my own music.

What I always try to do is to respond to the song; I've always rebelled against theory.

To break R&B into subcategories does a disservice to the music. I like to live in a zone where I can do whatever I want, where I don't have to worry about genre.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

My music is mostly for the music. And it gives the liberty to do anything which I want. And nobody limits me to one genre of music. But I learn from life and I try to give back to life, in a way, whether it's the thought of the song or whether it's the approach to the arrangement or anything.

I don't want to be held down by genres so much.

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

I love to improvise when it's appropriate and encouraged by a producer.