Quotes About Collaboration

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

You learn so much about music from all the people you surround yourself with - good, bad and indifferent. It's extremely hard to be specific.

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.

I prefer the band aspect of things. I feel comfortable. It feels good to look to my left and right and see three other people on stage with you that love music as much as you.

I'm the band leader. That's not to say that the other people are my minions - they all put in a tremendous amount of personality, and push the music in ways I would never expect.

The music business used to carry a certain amount of brotherly love, but it isn't that way now.

I was really interested in how a health care center could also be a center for the arts and for music, and for bringing together sort of the isolated elements of the community.

Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

I liked your opera. I think I will set it to music.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

The music is first and foremost everything - no egos, no attitude, nothing - it's about the music.

Music has always been transnational.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.

People who just listen to music and are not a part of the creative community should realize that there is a lot of interaction between artists who have different styles.

You don't really know what you're going to get until you're actually in Abbey Road. That's where I did all the music, in The Beatles' place.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz.

Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.

I look at people like musical instruments. I set people to music.