Disco does work better with black artists or players. They just feel it more.
Nowadays you need so much money to be able to launch a new artist, notably in America; you would hardly believe the sums involved.
Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.
I would not be happy to do what I do unless I felt that the large audience wanted it.
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.
I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.
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.
I achieved something specially different with Love To Love You Baby and I Feel Love. These songs will endure.
It is at least 10 times more difficult to get a good synthesiser sound than on an acoustic instrument.
My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles.