Quotes About Collaboration

Most musicians count at the beginning, and never count and talk to their musicians after that. They only talk to them at the end of the song. But I would count with them and talk.

I don't control it at all. It's all up to the musicians in the group. They control it. They make all the cues, and they tell me what they want, and then I act like a mirroring device so that everyone can see what the cues are.

Well, remember that we were all members of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

Comedians talk to other comedians the way jazz musicians can talk to each other.

All the people I hung out with were musicians.

And it's a lot harder to hide with four musicians than it is with eight.

It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And that's what we had in GN'R.

I've met a lot of jazz musicians in my day, and they're all funny.

I've always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.

The studio is really fun because I don't make it into the studio unless I've got something I really like. I love working with different musicians in the studio; that's a real joy, working with someone for the first time.

A Cat Stevens record isn't just Cat Stevens' ideas. It's Cat Stevens and all the musicians who play with Cat Stevens, right?

Intense study with Indian musicians such as Gaurav Majumdar and Zakir Hussain has inspired me to rethink my view of instrumental sound.

I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.

I think that's one thing about the entertainment industry: Athletes want to be actors, and musicians want to be actors, so it all kind of mixes nice together.

Great music seems to come from a lot of angst, and that angst is from great musicians getting together with intense chemistry. When that chemistry isn't there, people tend not to write great music.

Creating sounds together with other musicians is something I've always liked doing.

I'm very proud of my band and my musicians.

I couldn't do what I do without the encouragement and influence of the musicians I played with in Chicago.

All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.

Hopefully, I can stay around a lot of young musicians and feed off of them.

Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.

On 'Black Hawk Down,' I was employing 1,000 Muslims. 'Kingdom of Heaven,' same deal except bigger, probably 1,500 Muslims.

I did two records with DJ Mustard. They were stupid, like, crazy hits, so we just kept on working, and we did a whole project together, so we got that coming.