Quotes About Collaboration

I must have a good chemistry to play because I play every day with the same people. It has to be there. It's essential for a band like Soulfly.

Working with the Bhatts is something I'll always cherish.

I want to work with Cherry Jones.

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

I want to be more involved outside just my community of Chicago.

When I lived in Chicago, it often felt like the same people who were going to all the little theater companies were the people who were working in them.

Working with BJ The Chicago Kid was amazing.

One of the biggest reasons entrepreneurs don't succeed is because they have too many chiefs. You've got to bring in the right people to make the right decisions.

Space is not an enterprise that belongs to the U.S. or to Russia or to China - it is a human endeavor and experience. And that's as it should be.

It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

When we started out, you could design a chip with a few guys in a basement.

I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

I got along with mostly everyone, but music school does that to you. We had to sing in a choir all the time, so we had to get along with everyone.

And I've teamed up with a choir from home. They're called the Gori Women's Choir. They're a 23-piece all-female choir, and they've been going since the '70s.

Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.

To me, a great drummer isn't always about somebody with chops who can shred. A great drummer is someone who is part of a great band.

For me, the choreography always comes from the music.

Dudes I work with have to be like-minded to where I just hand them a beat that has a chorus and they can do with them what they gotta do. If they can't do that, I usually don't work with 'em.

I always maintained I'm a good simple boy from Punjab. Some chose not to believe me. Now the same people are happy to work with me.

When you have the chance to work with Wes Anderson, with Stephen Frears and Chris Weitz and Roman Polanski and Terrance Malick you don't say no.

I have never worked with anyone who I hold in higher esteem than Chris Menges. He's an absolute, bona fide, authentic artist.

Chris Bosh helped a lot... and he was 'The Guy.' When you've got The Guy on your side it makes it easier.

In 'White Christmas,' I wasn't the main part.

Christopher Knowles, Buechner, Heiner Mueller, Burroughs, Chekhov, Shakespeare - it's all one body of work.