Giorgio by Moroder - Intellectual

[Spoken Word: Giorgio Moroder]

When I was fifteen, sixteen, when I really started to play guitar

I definitely wanted to become a musician

It was almost impossible because—it was—the dream was so big

That I didn't see any chance because

I was living in a little town; was studying

And when I finally broke away from school and became a musician

I thought, "Well, now I may have a little bit of a chance"

Because all I really wanted to do is music

And not only play music, but compose music

At that time, in Germany, in '69, '70, they had already discotheques

So, I would take my car, would go to a discotheque

Sing maybe thirty minutes

I think I had about seven, eight songs

I would partially sleep in the car

Because I didn't want to drive home and that helped me for about

Almost two years to survive in the beginning

I wanted to do an album with the sounds of the '50s

The sounds of the '60s, of the '70s

And then have a sound of the future

And I said, "Wait a second, I know the synthesizer

Why don't I use the synthesizer which is the sound of the future?"

And I didn't have any idea what to do

But I knew I needed a click, so we put a click on the 24-track

Which then was synced to the Moog Modular

I knew that could be a sound of the future

But I didn't realize how much the impact would be

My name is Giovanni Giorgio

But everybody calls me Giorgio

Once you free your mind about a 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