Quotes About Collaboration

I remember coming into 'The Lion King' and, oh forgive me Lord, but doubting it. The way that musicals are put together, we're kind of exclusive of each other. And so somebody's working on this in one room, and somebody's working that in the other room. I did not understand how all this was going to come together.

As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

If you were to ask me, 'What the hell does a musician have in common with a restaurant?' I would say a huge amount. It's show time every day, it's a team of people, like, running a circus, which is running a rock-and-roll band.

There's more to being a musician than just making music.

I've always wanted to do a cutesy little song with a guy and girl singing back and forth and thought that Regina Spektor would be kind of cool for that. I love her voice. She's an amazing musician.

It's really nice to be able to do what I'm doing without having to compromise with another musician.

Well, my musicians are my friends.

Musicians like to converse. There's always interesting conversation with musicians - with classical musicians, with jazz musicians, musicians in general.

I'm just lucky to have the type of friends and musicians and people dedicated to my music that I do.

I woud definitely want to collaborate with Indian musicians.

Having live musicians in a comedy show adds a frisson.

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

I did a concert... in September with the Berlin Philharmonic... They're great musicians, and there's always something to learn from them.

A lot of people assume that musicians are comrades by nature. It's cutthroat like anything else.

We never thought we were musicians. We just thought we were in a band.

I am getting to work with some good musicians, artistes, and composers.

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

We're all continuing to grow up and get better as musicians, and the chemistry as a band continues to deepen.

What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.

It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians.

I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that helps when it comes to setting up a band for live. Derrick has been with me for donkey's years.

I don't try to make 15 musicians sound like two each.