Quotes from Giorgio Moroder

I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music.

I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.

I love Lady Gaga, Rihanna - all the pop girls like Katy Perry. I think Miley Cyrus is very talented, too. Apart from the visuals, which you may like or not like, but her music is quite good, actually. 'Wrecking Ball' is quite a good song, and she sang it really nicely.

My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.

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

I wanted to get into art. I did some neon stuff. I worked in, not computer-generated, but computer manipulation of pictures.

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

I am certainly not racist; I even like the British.

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

In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say.

Once you free your mind about a concept of music and harmony being correct, you can do whatever you want.

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

Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.

'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.

I set a Google Alert for myself, and now I'm seeing people say my music influenced them and how great it is all the time. Sometimes I listen to this stuff that's supposed to be influenced by me, and I can't hear myself in it. But I'd rather they say it than not.

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.

A producer is always behind the scenes, even more in the movies - nobody sees you. I didn't even meet most of the actors. When I worked on 'Top Gun,' I never met Tom Cruise. You were always in the background.

Dance music doesn't care where you live. It doesn't care who your friends are. It doesn't care how much money you make. It doesn't care if you're 74 or if you are 24 because... 74 is the new 24!

I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

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

I am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

In film, I was surprised when I first saw the movie 'Drive.' I said, 'Oh, God. It sounds great - I love it. Wow, this could be the soundtrack from 'American Gigolo' or 'Cat People.' But I'm surprised that the director would agree with a composer to write that kind of sound.

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.

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.