Nile Rodgers Quotes
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I wouldn't know how to retire.
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Trust me, the only real way to understand 'Chic' is in highfalutin terms. Our chord progressions were based on European modal melodies. I made those early 'Chic' records to impress my jazz friends.
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I only work with people I like.
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Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.
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My concept is, until you absolutely know the plane is crashing, there's no reason to be afraid. All the turbulence in the world does not mean the plane is crashing. Once it's confirmed, then you can be afraid.
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When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.
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I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.
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Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
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My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'
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The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.
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I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.
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Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
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I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
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It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
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Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting.
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I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'.
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Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
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Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.
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I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.
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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.
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Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.
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I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.
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I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it.
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In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.