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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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" 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. "

Nile Rodgers

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

Nile Rodgers

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "