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Nile Rodgers Biography

Nile Gregory Rodgers Jr. (born September 19, 1952) is an American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist. He is the lead guitarist and co-founding member with Bernard Edwards of the band Chic, which has been active since 1976 and was one of the most successful groups of the disco era. He is famed for his "chucking" rhythm guitar style.

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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.

Careers, Chance, Given, Opportunity, People

I've been able to be a part of every movement in music over the last several decades. The only one that I haven't been involved in so much is hip-hop, which I chose not to be involved in because it felt like I would be what they called "perpetrating. " It felt like hip-hop was so much of its own culture and that I was not part of that culture.

Chose, Culture, Hip Hop, Movement, Several, Would Be

I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.

Particular, Period, Periods, Pops, Stuck, Understand

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

Ifs, Overdoing, Overdoing It, Worth

I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.

Five, Insomnia, Require, Sleep, Tired, Years

Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

Artist, Come, Cooler, Gaga, Love And Respect, Respect

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

Fool, Good, Person, Persons, Trailers

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.

Song, Writing, People, Songs, Guy

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.

Eno, Jones, Musician, Musicians, Song, Writing

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.

Guitar, Impress, Jazz, Music, Progressions, Real

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.

Cities, Head, Seeing, Thing, Turns, Venice

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.

Album, Albums, Anymore, Concept, Song, Thinking

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

Day, Movie, Play, Satire, School, Theaters

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.

Artist, Chair, Feels, Jobs, Like, Symphony

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

Afraid, Option

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

Art, Emotion, Like, Opens, Think, Thinking

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.

Art, Different, Place, Places You Go, Takes

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

Critic, Judging Yourself, Overcoming, Speak, Think, Thinking