Quotes About Collaboration

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

There was no real poet in the band, but we tried.

I was excited by what my painter friends were doing, and they seemed to be interested in our poetry too, and that was a wonderful little, fizzy sort of world.

That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.

My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

The scientist and engineers who are building the future need the poets to make sense of it.

I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself.

Poets are not meant to be in competition.

I am happy that I could collaborate with poets like O.N.V. Kurup and Yusufali Kechery in my career; they wrote meaningful lyrics, which made my songs last longer.

Federalism should be a meeting point of all groups.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

It's hard to play basketball without a point guard - it's an important position.

You don't want to be the selfish point guard. You want to be the guy that gets everybody open, that makes plays, and see the ball move before it goes in.

For me, as a point guard, you have to construct everything. If you make everybody happy, you are going to be happy.

I always try to approach a film from the point of view of the director.

From an artist's point of view, I always want to work with the writers I admire.

The only way to conduct an effective collaboration is to debate the things upon which you disagree. If one doesn't manage to bring the other around to his point of view, then whichever collaborator feels the most passionate about the thing being debated ought to get his way.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

As an actor, you have to believe in the point of view of a director; as a director, you have to be able to express what your point of view is and invite everybody to join you on that journey. So it's always about opening up.

As a heterosexual designer, it is really, really important to have a woman's point of view.

Collaboration between different parts of the world will bring us closer. From a business point of view, it opens up new markets as well.

Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there's an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to be like a business collaboration.