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

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

Nile Rodgers

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

Nile Rodgers

When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'.

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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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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.

Nile Rodgers

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

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

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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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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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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'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.

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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 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.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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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.

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

Nile Rodgers

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

Nile Rodgers

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 Rodgers

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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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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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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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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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 only work with people I like.

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