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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 am reluctant to judge things without being informed.

I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.