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" 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. "

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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. "

Nile Rodgers

You

Experience

" 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. "

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

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

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

Nile Rodgers

Keep Moving

Lucky

" 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

" 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

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

" 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. "

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

" I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I only work with people I like. "

Nile Rodgers

Work

People

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 wouldn't know how to retire. "

" 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. "

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

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