Chic Quotes
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It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.
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If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
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Even child abuse specialists do not routinely screen for domestic violence. This shows how much more education we need to do, even among experts, to understand the known links between violence of the child and the parent.
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When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died.
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I'd like to be remembered as a premier singer of songs, not just a popular act of a given period.
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I wouldn't know how to retire.
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Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
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See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.
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One look in your eyes and there I see just what you mean to me. Here in my heart I believe your love is all I'll ever need.
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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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I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
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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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All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.
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I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.
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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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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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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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Whenever I say goodbye its never for long because I believe in the power of love.
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My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'
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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.