Quotes About Collaboration

Jazz is people's music, a collectivity.

I'm always gonna be all over my CD the most, of course. My talent is my talent. I ain't really tripping off no ego; I just like to make good music with good people.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

In the music industry, there's often a lot of egos and people aren't always very supportive, but we cheer each other on and we push each other to be better.

The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness.

One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.

People sometimes forget that jazz was built not only in the minds of the great ones but on the backs of the ordinary ones — ordinary musicians.

Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music.

Music is about the only thing left that people don't fight over.

I like to be one of those drummers who actually add to the music, not one of those guys who sit in a room 24/7 trying to outwit or outplay another drummer.

Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.

Sometimes I'm in the studio, sometimes I'm not. It's about delivering the music to the artist, but it's also about the inspiration.

Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same.

I don't separate one era of jazz from another, because I listen to everybody... Everybody takes from everybody else and adds their own thing and goes on from there.

Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

My music wasn't written by Mozart, Beethoven, Bach or Schubert. It's written by God and me. They go "a one and a two and up." We start on the downbeat. Bam! And that's where we got them.

Music is a communication. It's a two-way street. You need people to play to in order to make that connection complete. That's the way we look at it.

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

I'm just trying to make the best music I can possibly make and represent the new class or whatever. Myself and Cudi and Asher and B.o.B. That's all I can do at this point.

If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.