Nile Rodgers Quotes
My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.
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Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comedy is much harder.
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I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations. I enjoy my life the most when I have a bunch of things going on at the same time.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
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I don't have a process; I just feel it. My book on acting would be very short.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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My family was quite poor, and the NHS was recruiting people from abroad to do psychiatric nursing. It was the only hope I had to leave Hong Kong.
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Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear.
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Artists are taught to be humble about their impact, especially in folk music. It's so ingrained that I have a hard time even thinking I had any impact other than what a normal hit song would have.
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Our music is a get-up music. Get you up music, uplift your spirit. That's what I'm trying to give you.
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My responsibility is to the artist first. There's something that artists intrinsically know about their music and their fanbase that neither the record company nor the producer really knows.
