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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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" It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair. "

Nile Rodgers

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" Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition. "

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

Nile Rodgers

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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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" I wouldn't know how to retire. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Nile Rodgers

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others. "

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

" 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. "