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" Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition. "
Nile Rodgers
Person
Repetition
Powerful
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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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" 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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" 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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" When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together. "
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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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" Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is. "
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My Life
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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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My Life
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" I wouldn't know how to retire. "
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Know
How
Retire
" 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. "
Nile Rodgers
Good
Regret
Good Friends
" When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new. "
Nile Rodgers
Time
Vacation
Reading
" I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others. "
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Great
Myself
Others
" I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve. "
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You
Rest
Love
" 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. "
Nile Rodgers
Writing
People
Meet
" I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'. "
Nile Rodgers
Versions
Obsessed
Film
" 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. "
Nile Rodgers
Time
Done
Friend
" If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing. "
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Something
Doing
Overdoing
" I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life. "
Nile Rodgers
Amazing
Well
Rich
" 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. "
Nile Rodgers
Professional
Quit
School
" 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. "
Nile Rodgers
Rest
You
Place
" 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. "
Nile Rodgers
Love
Future
You
" 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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Know
First
Genius
" I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. "
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Yourself
Judging
Own
" I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired. "
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Just
Tired
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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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Style
Funky
Jazz
" I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved. "
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Being
Woman
" 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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Up
Doing
Emotions
" My life was really interesting before 'Chic.' "
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Chic
Before
Interesting
" 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. "
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Parents
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Leader
" 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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