You try and learn from some people's mistakes. But you have to really trust the people who are working for you because they make a lot of decisions that could either do well for you or really screw up your image.
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.
If I'm in the middle of a take and I start to think about what I'm doing, I just mess up and I have to stop and so I find that for me, you really need to trust your instinct.
You've got to trust people. And because I am a control freak, sometimes that's difficult for me, because I want to micro-manage absolutely everything. I can't hand over. But I'm trying to do that more.
If there was ever any truth to the trickle-down theory, the only evidence of it I've ever seen was in that period of 1960 to 1965. All of sudden they were handing out major label recording contracts like they were coming in Cracker Jack boxes.
The truth is, there are probably eight more 'Snow White' scripts floating around out there. And once one 'Snow White' script got hot, other people started pulling out their 'Snow White' scripts.
Johnny Clay: You'd be killing a horse - that's not first degree murder, in fact it's not murder at all, in fact I don't know what it is.
Joe (Cantonese)/Jeffrey (English): Don't hurt her, you maniac! Johnny Weng: No, I won't hurt her. I'll blow her head off!
Johnny Caspar: You can't say, "I told you so." Tom Reagan: I don't say that and I don't like people who do.
[referring to his epileptic cousin Teresa] Johnny Boy: I always wondered what happens when she comes. Does she have a fit?
Johnny Boy: [Charlie hits him] You two-faced, dirty fucking bastard! Don't you ever hit me again!
Doyle Lonnegan: Your boss is quite a card player, Mr. Kelly; how does he do it? Johnny Hooker: He cheats.
Loretta: I don't even know you. Johnny Hooker: You know me. I'm the same as you. It's two in the morning and I don't know nobody.
Henry Gondorff: Is Lonnegan after you too? Johnny Hooker: I don't know. I ain't seen anybody. Henry Gondorff: You never do, kid.
Johnny Tyler: You run your mouth awful reckless for a man that don't go heeled. Wyatt Earp: No need to go heeled to get the bulge on a tub like you.
Johnny Ringo: [Ringo has taken Holliday up on his offer to 'finish the game'] All right, 'lunger'. Let's do it. Doc Holliday: Say when.
Johnny Tyler: Christ Almighty, it's like I'm sittin' here playin' cards with my brother's kids or somethin'. You nerve-wrackin' sons-a-bitches.
Vivian Cash: You can't wear black. It looks like you're going to a funeral. Johnny Cash: Maybe I am...
Johnny Cash: Now I've asked you forty different ways and it's time you come up with a fresh answer.
Johnny Cash: Marry me, June. June Carter: Oh please, get up off your knees, you look pathetic.
June Carter: You walked here all the way from Nashville? Johnny Cash: Yeah, well, walking is good for you...
