Nile Rodgers quotes
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“In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga,”
-- Nile RodgersSource : "Nile Rodgers Talks Memoir, Sly Stone’s Drug Addiction And Love Of Lady Gaga". Interview with Brennan Williams, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2011.
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“Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.”
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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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“After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.”
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“What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.”
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“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.”
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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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“If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
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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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“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.”
-- Nile RodgersSource : "On my radar: Nile Rodgers". Interview with Ellie Bothwell, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2013.
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“You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.”
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“Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.”
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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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“Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.”
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“I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.”
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“I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.”
-- Nile Rodgers
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