Quotes About Collaboration

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

'My Country, My Music' is about bringing music in languages like Tamil, Telegu, Kannada, Malyalam, and Marathi together. It's about bringing musical genres together, different scenarios in which music is displayed in our country in one show.

For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so we decided to create something from scratch, with Jonathan. By that time we were big fans of his work.

There is always a musical exchange happening between me and my sons.

My musical journey with A. R. Rahman is filled with personal milestones and realisations.

I had my own musical ideas that Mick helped me with as well.

I would do a movie musical.

My dream artists to collaborate with are probably Cee Lo Green and Imogen Heap. They're completely out of my genre but they're both musical geniuses.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.

There comes a point with any collaboration like that where you start having other interests creatively. I was moving in one direction musically, and as a guitar player, Mark wanted to move in another direction. That was essentially the reason we broke up.

I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.

I just loved working with George Benson, whom I very much enjoy musically and as a person.

Motley never once sat down and said, 'Well, the music scene's changing. We need to make this record a little darker or heavier musically or lyrically.' It was just four guys sitting in a room like a bunch of 16-year-olds in a garage and jamming on riffs.

Being a three piece, maybe it's easier. You only have two other guys, musically, and everything else to contend with and work with.

We all came to the conclusion that we have an undeniable chemistry musically, that we might not ever find again. The mix of friction and camaraderie channels good songs, performances and laughs.

When you start a band, you have to find people that are good, have the same sort of mindset as you musically.

My material contribution musically was less than George's, and George and I have both always been very open about that.

'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' was my favorite for me to be in because it was all dancing. There were other musicals that I made with Donald O'Connor and Gene Kelly that were wonderful pictures, and we had a lot of fun making them.

I made all these great musicals with Judy Garland. It was all about me going into a barn and saying: 'Let's put on a show.' That's what me and Judy did.

Magic in plays and musicals, I think, is more often created because of the work of an incredible company rather than a single component.

When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.

It's exciting to share an art form that I would never have imagined sharing with the deaf community. Doing musicals, it's not like, 'Oh, I'll do a musical with a deaf person.'