Nile Rodgers Quotes

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Nile Rodgers

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1952

You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

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With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

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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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Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends.

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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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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 life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

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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 am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.

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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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I wouldn't know how to retire.

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There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

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I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.

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There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.

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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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I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.

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I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal.

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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 love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you'll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future.

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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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