Nile Rodgers Quotes

I think my music has always been a mixture, depending on whom I'm working with - what band, what musicians, what producer.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I'm thinking about starting a solo project. But it will feature Tyler on all the songs. We'll call it something like 'Two Music Boys.'

I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

I actually had a really nice guitar as a teenager. I took jazz guitar, so my mom bought me this probably $1,600 guitar. But I got really into garage rock and local bands, and I noticed they played really crappy guitars. So I thought, 'Hey, I should get a crappy guitar, too!'

There was absolutely no intention of splitting up. We had so many great ideas to use on the new album. John Paul Jones was incredible, coming to the studio each day with new instruments to play.

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.

I was trying to take the band in a direction that I thought was appropriate, and Roth was trying to take the band in more of a Las Vegas direction. And there he is.

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.

My entire style of playing was built around somebody else playing guitar with me, a story that, on its own, sounds unfinished.

There's a jazz influence in my music in general.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

For the people that don't know it, we've had members come and go from this band since the beginning. It's always been about collaboration, and it's been about just playing music with our friends.

I did alternative rock before. That's why my style is the way it is now.

I feel my voice can fit in many things so it's very interesting to combine things and music styles.

When I work with different musicians, I draw a lot of things from them, and that has really expanded my musical thinking.

We consolidated the style of 4Minute by experimenting with different sounds throughout the years.

Dilla was a John Coltrane-type dude. He was always on a higher level. He inspired my music to become looser and more soulful.

When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.

A lot of people don't know this, but I started out as a blues-based player, and then, when I realized after playing 18 hours a day that there's more than five notes per scale, that's when my stuff became what it was. I started listening to violinists and flautists, and that's how my style evolved.

I wanted to play rocking country music, and when I started out in the late Seventies, it took me a couple of albums to figure out how to do that.

We listen to a lot of classical and a lot of jazz, and so you get some funky notes here and there. And we get a little experimental in some of the deeper tracks.