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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. "

Nile Rodgers

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Nile Rodgers

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman. "

" 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. "

" Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record. "

" 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. "

" My life was really interesting before 'Chic.' "

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

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

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

" 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. "

Nile Rodgers

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Experience

" It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style. "

" 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. "

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

" Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top. "

" 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. "

" I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved. "

" 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. "

" My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor. "

" Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved. "

" I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. "

" 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. "

" I only work with people I like. "

Nile Rodgers

Work

People

" I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver. "

" 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'. "