Quotes About Collaboration

My dream is to compose for Karan Johar and Aditya Chopra.

I enjoyed working with Vishal Bhardwaj. As an artist I still think the song could have been better but everyone liked it the way it was composed, so no complaints.

Music composer Tanishk Bagchi has always believed in me.

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

As a film composer, you have to be a good collaborator.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

It should be a singer's quality to know what a composer wants and sing accordingly.

It's a very fun project as a composer to work on a movie that has music in its core.

I would really love to do the score for movies. Pick the music and work with composers. I don't know if I'd be any good at it, but I love music.

My favourite composers are Vishal Shekhar, AR Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan-Loy.

Our job as composers becomes easy when directors have a good knowledge of music and know exactly what they want.

I began working as an assistant since the age of 16 with my father Dabboo Malik, went on to work with composers like Amar Mohile, Salim-Sulaiman, Pritam Da, and Sandeep Chowta.

One of the major aspects of film composing is that it's not so much a musical thing as it is communicating your ideas with the director, who often does not come from a musical background.

Composing easy? I find it easy if - big if - the idea is right, if I have the right collaborator, and if my collaborator is in the room. I like my collaborator to be in the room.

Isn't composing music akin to film direction?

I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for orchestrating and composing, and I think she would be really engaging to work with.

I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.

In TV, there's so much compromise, it does start to grate a bit. But if you're a writer or an actor, it really is the place to be.

If you approach economic policy with the spirit of compromise, you can actually get good support.

Naturally, in a band or duo, it's really about compromise which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

As a player you appreciate a manager who can maybe compromise a bit in his own ways for the good of the team.

There's a lot of compromises, but that's what a great record should be, really.

Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.

Computing is no more about work - it's all about making work happen with computers.