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" 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. "

Nile Rodgers

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

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

" 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. "

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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