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.

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

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.

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.

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