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" 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. "

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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. "

Nile Rodgers

Life

My Life

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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

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

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

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

" I wouldn't know how to retire. "

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

Nile Rodgers

Keep Moving

Lucky

" I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend. "

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