"Giorgio By Moroder" Lyrics

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.
I 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 then I thought, "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 the 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.