Nile Rodgers Quotes
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
Quotes to Explore
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.
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You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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Both of my parents were super music lovers when I was growing up - they had a massive record and tape collection. I think my dad even had a couple of laser discs, but that was a short-lived thing.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
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That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.
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During 'Idol,' I wasn't expecting anything. I just wanted to survive the competition, but my album and my music are a big part of who I am. Hopefully it translates well and I keep growing as an artist.
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If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue.
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I would not go so far as to say that the French trade unions attached greater importance to the struggle for peace than the others did; but they certainly seemed to take it more to heart.
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Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
