A biography for Nile Rodgershasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend.”
“When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.”
“I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired.”
“My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.”
“I wouldn't know how to retire.”
“I only work with people I like.”
“When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together.”
“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.”
“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.”
“You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.”
“If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.”
“Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.”
“I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms.”
“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.”
“It was actually my partner, Bernard Edwards, who helped me develop my sort of funky jazz style.”
“I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.”
“I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved.”
“Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.”
“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.”