Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many. |
In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm. |
I think it would be stupid for us to try and tell people who are dancing in a discotheque about the problems of the world. That is the very thing they have come away to avoid. |
In both pop and disco, the meaning of the lyrics is not too important. I have nothing I feel I particularly want to say. |
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved. |
Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more. |
Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious. |
The disco sound, you must see, is not art or anything so serious. |
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do. |
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles. |
I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure. |
I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do. |
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance. |
I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do. |
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best. |
I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it. |
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument. |
I am reluctant to judge things without being informed. |
I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music. |
I am certainly not racist; I even like the British. |