Jimmy Somerville Quotes

I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.

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

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

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.

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.

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

I am a disco king.

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

I remember the first single I ever bought. I think it was a terrible song called 'D.I.S.C.O.' by a band called Ottawan. It's a really fearless disco track from the '70s or early '80s.

When you think mid-seventies, you think of Studio 54, but there was a whole other thing going on. Where I was, it was more deep-woods preppy. Real-guy preppy.

I like to dance disco.

People are embarrassed by disco, but I love it.

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 never went to any disco, I didn't know anything about dance.

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.

Twenty years ago I went to see this show The Best Disco in Town Live, it was all these disco acts like Gloria Gaynor and Tavares and I had the best night of my life. There was no new music, it was just hits you loved growing up.

Donna Summer was such a genius.

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.

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?

Donna Summer would be remembered as a ground-breaking artist today even if she'd retired the day after she recorded 'I Feel Love' in 1977.

The first years of my life were spent in a roller disco in the early '80s called Flipper's. It was a real riotous, incredible time. I am slightly obsessed with the place.

I never really did any disco dancing.

I was the Justin Bieber of the '70s. Really, I was.

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