Nile Rodgers famous quotes

03-25-2025

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga,
-- Nile Rodgers

#Today #World
Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Needs #Band #Boost
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

#Art #Different #Good Art
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.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Morning #Children #Years
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.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Artist #Feel Good #Looks
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.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Running #Regret #Party
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.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Music #Real #Guitar
If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.
-- Nile Rodgers
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.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Opportunity #Careers #Giving
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

#Venice #Cities #Turns
You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Fool #Trailers #Persons
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Art #Thinking #Emotion
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

#Jobs #Artist #Symphony
Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Powerful #Real #Numbers
I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.
-- Nile Rodgers

#School #Play #Satire
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.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Song #Writing #Genius
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

#Real #People #Records
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.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Song #Thinking #Stories
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.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Song #Writing #People
I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Sleep #Tired #Insomnia
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
-- Nile Rodgers

#Thinking #Judging #Overcoming

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