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“My favorite would be 'Love to Love You' because from zero, I went to Number One. I don't think it's the best song – the best one is probably between 'Flashdance' and 'Take My Breath Away.”

“My music was typically continental – nothing like, say, The Beatles.”

“My name is Giovanni Giorgio , but everybody calls me Giorgio.”

“Now, the DJ becomes a star in itself because of the way he programs the songs with lows and then highs and then slowing it down. The big DJs, like Tiesto and Deadmau5 and all those guys, they are very, very creative.”

“Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.”

“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.”

“One day. I was putting on a hill in Zurich, and a few hundred yards away, Diana Ross was doing a sound test at an arena for a performance that night of 'Take My Breath Away,' my song with her. That was a very nice game, an incredible feeling.”

“One of the most interesting things, at least for me, are the soundtracks for 'The Social Network' and 'Drive.' Basically, it's what I did in 'American Gigolo.' I could have done the music for those movies blindfolded. And one of them won an Oscar, and the other is this massive soundtrack.”

“Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious.”

“Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious.”

“Unless you use the vocoder the way Daft Punk use it, it is very limited. When they sing it's almost human. It sounds sexy. I just used it as an effect. It wasn't because I was not able to sing; I'm not a great singer, but I had some hits as a singer, too. It's a nice effect.”

“What Skrillex does with Ableton it's like being a little god. It's not just pushing loops – that's easy – but to do the effects he's a genius.”

“When I'm dead, somebody can write my biography. I wrote a national hymn, an anthem, which I don't want to present to that country. But I have a deal with my wife – when I'm dead, she should offer it, because then I'm safe.”

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“I want people to know about all the kinds of music that I write. Some believe I just write film scores, which is not true.”


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