Dhani Harrison Quotes

I've learned a lot from Dave Stewart; he's a serial collaborator. He's co-written songs with more people than anybody I know - like the most incredible people too.

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

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

I would love to play with Rufus Wainwright. He's one of my favorite songwriters.

At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.

I love working with different artist with different styles and different producers with different sounds, creativity is everything.

I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I'd actually say that every musician is a human being, and that not everybody likes being social. But with music, there are all these ingredients to the business that have nothing to do with writing songs or playing an instrument.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

Music is a passion of mine, so I also want to continue along that path, creating with my friends.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

Without a doubt, even when I play with Black Label, when we have different guys I play with, everyone always brings their own magic, their own flavor to the soup, hands down.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

With Rihanna, it's always a collaboration, and that's why I love her so much.

I definitely made friends with the people I like to write with, but I'll also write with people I haven't met before or producers I haven't met before because how are you supposed to make those friends without trying?

There are just so many people making music out there. I've always promoted the idea that everybody needs to make music. I think the more music there is in the world, the better, but it does make it highly competitive.

As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.

In the 1990s music was a beautiful collaborative process between the composer, lyricist and director. They would exchange ideas and magic used to happen.

We at Interscope put projects out with anyone we believe has a great idea and is a true talent, whether it's a musician, photographer, software developer, or technology innovator.