Nile Rodgers Quotes

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Nile Rodgers

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 19, 1952

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

Nile Rodgers

I only work with people I like.

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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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I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records.

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My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.

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I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

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I grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place.

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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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