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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. "

Nile Rodgers

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" I only work with people I like. "

Nile Rodgers

Work

People

" 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'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. "

" Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. "

Nile Rodgers

Doing

Emotions

" I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'. "

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

" 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

You

Experience

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner. "

Nile Rodgers

Keep Moving

Lucky

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

" 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. "

Nile Rodgers

Wind

Meet

" If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing. "

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

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

" 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'. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired. "

" 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. "

Nile Rodgers

Life

My Life