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

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.

Always be intentional and purposeful in life

until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall courageously pay a higher price for our ignorance always

Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

I threw my hands up. Men. They were impossible to reason with.

Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

I am not a fate worse than death, dammit!

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

That Hugh Laurie show is nothing but Scrubs fan fiction.