75 Quotes by Nile Rodgers

When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.

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

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

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.

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.

Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.

I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

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.