Barbara Sher Quotes

I love collaboration of all kinds, and I love the way that collaboration pulls me into directions I wouldn't go in if I was working on my own.

Music - opera particularly - is a process which is endurable or successful only if it is achieved by people who love to collaborate.

You do your work as fully as you can, and the ones who hear the sound join in.

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

The dogs and I are a single thing, and thus we share our interests. With them, I'm bigger and better than I am without them, and vice versa.

No more like together than is chalke to coles.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can we really go ahead and do this? And it was obvious within the first moment of plugging in the instruments that the magic was still there. It was a fantastic feeling.

Life and art had a nice parallel, in the sense of coming together as strangers who are separate in prison who need to work together, getting to know each other.

In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.

The way of mutual strife and exclusiveness is the only way to perdition and slavery.

Two are better than one if two act as one.

You need others. Too often people think that being unique means being isolated, and being a great artist means coming up with genius ideas out of nowhere. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I always start a painting with the sky.

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

That's a gift God's given us: the ability to work together in collaborations.

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good.

The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.

We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.

I love collaborating with people.

Directing is mystifying. It's a long, long, skid on an icy road, and you do the best you can trying to stay on the road... If you're still here when you come out of the spin, it's a relief. But you've got to have the terror if you're going to do anything worthwhile.

I'm so motivated to collaborate with people and help them realize the kind of collective vision.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

There are lots of ways to work together.