I knew a lot of my musicians used to take coke. I never saw them. They would hide it from me, so I wasn't really aware of it. Creatively, I don't think it was that great.

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

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.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

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

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.

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

It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.

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.

Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.

Some people spend so much time worrying about what might happen that they never enjoy what is happening [now] . . . Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Watching them was like watching the sunset and the sunrise, equally beautiful in different ways.

He could inspire ballads. He could inspire wars.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.

If you're fortunate enough with your history, like with Men in the Cities, your work becomes so absorbed in culture that the authorship of it doesn't exist anymore.

Champions know that there's something inside that makes a champion, and other people think that it might something external.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.