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Nile Rodgers
American
Musician
Born:
Sep 19
,
1952
Been
Life
Me
Music
People
You
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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.
Nile Rodgers
Love
You
Problem
Rest
Swimming
Solve
Shark
Like
Knowing
Always
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Going
Just
Forward
Keep
Keep Going
I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others.
Nile Rodgers
Myself
Great
Care
Others
Solace
Finally
Taking
Found
Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.
Nile Rodgers
Me
Back
Top
Boost
Put
Come
Call
Always
Bands
Them
Need
Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.
Nile Rodgers
Music
You
Entertainment
Business
Fool
Entertainment Business
Record
Part
Anybody
Where
Buying
Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
Nile Rodgers
Art
Emotions
Think
Something
Like
Opens
Doing
Up
Your
Enhances
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.
Nile Rodgers
Time
Great
Become
Every
Great Friends
Record
Only
Only Time
Became
Because
Continue
Friend
Friends
Hit
Person
Did
Done
It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.
Nile Rodgers
Me
Partner
Style
Jazz
Bernard
Develop
Sort
Who
Helped
Actually
Funky
Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved.
Nile Rodgers
Positive
Everything
Sun
Madonna
Clear
Nobody
Like
She
Achieved
Achieving
Dedicated
Wholly
I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life.
Nile Rodgers
Life
Amazing
Rich
Spiritually
Well
Because
Am
Amazing Life
Been
Chic
Very
I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.
Nile Rodgers
Tired
Old
Insomnia
Never
Had
Since
Years
Five
Just
Much
Require
Sleep
I wouldn't know how to retire.
Nile Rodgers
Retire
Know
How
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.
Nile Rodgers
Guitar
Telephone
Delivering
Since
Been
Child
Newspapers
Worked
Cutting
Working
I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous.
Nile Rodgers
Parents
Fabulous
Never
Wished
Because
Were
Normal
Special
Unique
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.
Nile Rodgers
Love
Future
You
Happy
Wonderful
Looking
Before
YouTube
Interviews
Those
Giddy
Out
Madonna
See
Record
Excited
Towards
Know
She
Came
Go
Just
Want
Early
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.
Nile Rodgers
Life
Work
Me
Impossible
My Life
Unless
Never
Simply
Because
Becomes
Doing
Cancelled
Any
Stop
Want
Public
Appearance
When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.
Nile Rodgers
Death
You
Together
People
Dig
Tell
Pretty
Got
Get
Deep
Brink
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.
Nile Rodgers
Music
Responsibility
First
Neither
Record
Record Company
About
Something
Know
Knows
Nor
Artist
Artists
Producer
Really
Company
I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.
Nile Rodgers
Woman
Madonna
Involved
Without
Been
Close
Being
Grew
Ever
I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life.
Nile Rodgers
Life
Music
School
My Life
Pay
Living
Thinking
Flute
All My Life
Clarinet
About
Knew
Although
Making
Making A Living
Cheque
Getting
Going
Used
Play
Play Music
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
You
Amazing
Single
Live
Every
Would
City
Seeing
Something
Could
Head
Venice
Without
Single Thing
Turn
If I Could
Your
Choose
Thing
Every Single Thing
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
Great
People
Job
First
Symphony
Support
Feels
Like
Artists
Worked
Sat
Chair
Third
I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.
Nile Rodgers
Yourself
Speak
Overcome
Own
Think
Worst
Critic
Judging
The Hardest Thing
Being
Your
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
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
Good
You
Experience
Takes
Well
Least
Go
Different
After
Place
Then
Good Art
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
Day
Satire
School
Spend
All Day
Would
Learned
Movie
Subtle
Theaters
Movie Theaters
Forms
Play
Consequently
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