Quotes About Collaboration

You can never tell when an artist really will take up someone's work and work with it happily.

When everybody is sharing the ball, everybody makes everybody happy.

Ann and I were the main writers in Heart. We had the leadership role, and the guys in the band sometimes had a hard time with that.

I have a hard time working with other people with my own songs because I have a pretty complete idea of how it should be. It's usually just me multi-tracking which is better than coercing someone into doing my idea.

I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do.

Work harder than everybody. Read scripts, watch movies. Help other writers, it makes you better. And probably move to L.A.

Nothing is harder than working with an actor who doesn't take it seriously or show up in the same way that you are.

If somebody came up with a really good idea, everyone would back it. Especially when we did the show, we had a real dedication that, if you were in somebody else's scene, everyone worked their hardest to make that scene good.

The hardest one, the thing that made the greatest demand on me, was The Mamas & the Papas.

Having a hardware development team in-house is a major strength.

There are large cooperatives all across this country. Land O'Lakes is a $12 billion club functioning all across America. There are rural electric co-ops in 47 states. Ace Hardware is a cooperative.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.

My fans, they know my dad as Guitar Guy or whatever, and he's kind of just this shredder that plays on my records sometimes. But they don't know his ear and how rich his harmonic scope is.

I used to have a musical group with a girlfriend called The Thunderclouds. It was like a Beach Boys cover band. And we would just figure out Beach Boy songs - break 'em into two-part harmonies. And, you know, we played a couple of shows around Olympia. It was very fun.

Harmony Korine, the screenwriter, was really into my early work. I did a lot of stuff under the name Sentridoh and a lot of 4-track cassette stuff that he was into.

You'll get the maximum potential out of everyone on your team when you create harmony, when you treat each employee well.

Harmony singing isn't meant to be done alone.

When you're in a band it's a 24/7 thing. If you don't get on or like each other things will fall apart very quickly, which is what it seems happened with Fifth Harmony.

I always want harmony within the band. I want it to work.

Our history with Americans goes back over 80 years. They came here, they helped us harness our oil and gas, and we became leaders.

I mean Calvin Harris needs to holla for sure. But would also love to get Khalid or Kehlani on a record.

Harry Cohn did not make me. But I also feel that I probably didn't make me, either. I think it was a combination. I think that's what made it work.

I've known Harvey for over 40 years and I worked with him on the Burnett show for 11 years. I guess you could say we're about as close as you can get to being a comedy team.

I would love to work with PJ Harvey some day.