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" My life was really interesting before 'Chic.' "
Nile Rodgers
Chic
Before
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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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" 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. "
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" I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous. "
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" 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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" I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver. "
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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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" I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records. "
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" Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner. "
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" I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend. "
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" 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. "
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" I called all adults by their first names, and my mum was just another adult. I was the firstborn of my generation in the family, but because I was so close to my parents in age, they treated me with a kind of adult respect. They talked to me as an equal. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'. "
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" I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved. "
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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. "
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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. "
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