Nile Rodgers

“The groove is everything. It's the heartbeat of the music.”

“A great song is a great song, no matter what genre it is.”

“I believe in the power of music to bring people together.”

“Get up, get out, and do something. Don't let the diagnosis be the period at the end of your sentence.”

“Creativity is my currency. It's the one thing that I have that is truly mine.”

“Music is the one language that everybody understands.”

“I don't follow trends. I try to set them.”

“A good producer has to be a good psychologist.”

“I look at my guitar as a tool for orchestration. I'm thinking like a horn section.”

“Art is not about being perfect. It's about being honest.”

“Funk is the bass line. It's the foundation.”

“I was trying to make records that sounded like they came from a better place, a more utopian place.”

“I always write from a place of joy. It's my default.”

“My job as a producer is to make the artist's dream come true.”

“Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.”

“Collaboration is the essence of what I do. It's not about me; it's about the song.”

“To me, a song is a story. It's a three-and-a-half-minute movie.”

“You have to have a deep, relentless, almost psychotic belief in yourself.”

“I'm not trying to be the best guitar player. I'm trying to be the best rhythm player.”

“Everything that happens in my life is a song. It's a musical.”