Anoushka Shankar Quotes

I like to collaborate with other people for studio recordings because I believe collaboration, in any form, makes music better.

I love bands that can collaborate, and I feel like the Rolling Stones wouldn't be nearly as great as they are if it wasn't for them having a real group.

It's easier to collaborate with instrumentalists than singers; they know exactly the sound that I need.

In 'Boondien' I worked with a band where everyone had their own instrument to play.

Sometimes I like to make music together with a singer or with singers.

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

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

That was when Neil discovered Jack Nietzsche. They went off and pretty much came up with that by themselves, but I thought it was a great song, and I was more than happy to do my harmony parts on it.

A friend and I started a band together. I am kind of learning how to play instruments. We write stuff over Skype or e-mail. I send one part and he writes another.

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

That said, everything's important, and every musician who plays on the record is an integral part of it.

I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

Anything I do with Team Sleep, I'd do with Deftones as well.

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

If I ever do meet John Mayer and we end up in the studio, hopefully he'll bring the guitar, and I'll make a beat to it or something.

A song is composed of music and lyrics: 50 percent is the producer, 50 percent is the artist. So, I'm responsible for 50 percent. All I know is that I have to do my job, and I have to do it well. And he has to do the same.

I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.

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.

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

The problem is, when you're working with orchestras, you only get the orchestra for about two hours before the performance to pull it all together, and that doesn't sound like a real collaboration.

Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.