Michael Nyman Quotes

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

In an ideal world, as a director, you usually wish you could do your own thing and not have to take anyone else's point of view into account, but occasionally you work with someone like Robyn, who brings a new set of ideas to the table, and the whole ends up much greater than the sum of the parts.

I love collaborations because they take your music in a different way.

I've learned a lot from every musical collaboration I've ever had, but there's something about my relationship with Bjork that is special to me.

I woud definitely want to collaborate with Indian musicians.

I just believe in collaboration. I mean, I've written songs on my own, you know, but I think if the artist has something to bring to the table - someone like Pink, for instance - where they have something to say, it makes your job easier and more special.

Brenda did some little vocal arrangements for us and she got to sing as well. So, we're happy to be able to work together and that's another reason why we look forward to doing more of these.

The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.

I actually like the collaboration of working with different artists.

Whenever I work with different artists, I expand as a song writer, as a producer, and I always want to try and find the bridge between my world and their world.

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.

The transactions between me and the people that I photograph are very, very collaborative.

With 'Light,' I collaborated with a lot of different producers and musicians I respected, and we all wrote and worked on material which I then took to an old-school producer, David Kahne, and we put it all together. The lyrics came first - they were written before the music.

The race factor was just a minuscule part of what I was doing with Eminem. It was really about the music and how well we worked together.

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

On any collaboration, you want to respect your music and the other's music.

I'd like to produce something with Kanye. Like, my production plus his, I think he'd make something really cool.

There's an attitude that I have where I bring the art to the table and the writer brings the writing to the table, but neither of us brings the story to the table. The story is something that only happens with the combination of both of us.

To keep on collaborating with my friends from Cecile Believe and FluCt who inspire me a lot and who are part of the team putting this whole show together. I'm excited to have that kind of play.

I would love to collaborate with Hariharan Sir.

Gerry Dow - he's like a fourth member. He lives in Sweden; his art work is more important than... it's just as important as the music and the stage show.

Collaborating with other artists is an emotional thing. Obviously, you don't do it unless this person inspires you.

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

I want to interact creatively with the directors I work with - it's a thrilling way to work.

I've always liked playing with somebody else and collaborating, just to get out of my own head all the time. Everybody does, but artists especially, we torture ourselves. So it's good for me to immerse myself in somebody else's work.