Quotes About Collaboration

I've always felt like the Forrest Gump of the music business. I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people.

There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

I write other people songs. Recirculate it. It's the music business.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

The music business and I were made for each other.

Being in the music business, if we couldn't pull the fashions from designers and if designers couldn't use artists to show off their fashions, where would we be?

The music business used to be filled with people who love music.

You can get jaded in the music business, but I have so much passion, and I try to do music with different people to 'reset.'

The music business inspires designers, and designers inspire the music business.

I think there are so, so, so, so many things you have to be... to do this... you know, to keep going in the music business. Of course, you have to play well with others, you know, and you have to be smart with business and be good at your craft and be healthy.

One of the good things about globalization is it has created a single international music community, and I feel very much part of it.

DSP is not only a music director for many of my films, but he is also a very dear friend.

I am happy film stars are singing in their films. I hope to work as a music director for a film where actors will sing all the songs.

I've worked with many powerful men in the music industry.

The music industry is very small.

I thought that the music industry was going to be pretty easy - getting features and stuff - and everyone was going to be nice. But I realized that it's really, really hard to get features.

I know that the music industry has changed, but I'd love it if Adele and John Legend would write me songs.

I definitely like making my friends in the music industry.

I feel we have a music industry within the film industry.

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.

Chicago's music scene is very inspiring. I like to think of it as a small community of friends who enjoy creating and inspiring each other.

The music video, Lil Nas X, he asked me to be in the 'Panini' music video. It was crazy. I was just listening to the song and I was like, okay, this is going to be my first music video but it was really fun.

I did a musical that I don't think anybody ever saw, called 'One Shining Moment,' and in that cast was Megan Mullally and Kevin Anderson.

I know I have experience, having worked with the likes of legendary composers like Ilaiyaraaja. And, I've been long enough with my dear friend A. R. Rahman, and we've collaborated on several musical works. All this gives me confidence.