Quotes About Collaboration

I like Mike D. We kept trying to get him to go solo. He wouldn't do it.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.

It's archaic to think about films as a solo lead or multi-starrer.

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

I like being in the back. I've done that for so many years, I'm really comfortable doing it. I don't like the solo thing as much as I like playing drums behind someone.

I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

I enjoy my work, no matter who I am working with. Even if you give me a solo silent film, I will enjoy it.

I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.

I'm not saying I'll never go solo - never is a long time - but I've always been onstage with someone else. That way, you're in it together, and you can feel, together, when the songs are right.

I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the 'Pirates Of The Caribbean' movies and my solo career as indie films.

Certainly, whatever I learn while I'm out solo, I bring back to Fleetwood Mac.

There were certain things I couldn't do with New Order without upsetting the rest of the band, so I started to write some solo stuff.

I really value what Closed Sessions is doing to build the Chicago music scene and am excited to partner with them for my first solo project.

I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.

Usually when you put five girls together, especially when they've been solo artists, it doesn't turn out very well.

My solo series, in some ways, have been rarely truly solo.

The whole reason to make a solo album is to express what you can't express with the B-52s. The B's are so much about fun and partying and dancing.