American - Musician | September 19, 1952 -
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
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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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It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
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Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
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