Joe Walsh Quotes

You can't play a symphony alone, it takes an orchestra to play it.

Music teaches people to work together, which is maybe one of the most important skills.

Part of an ensemble show is realizing it's a collaboration. It's like a symphony. Everybody takes their turn, but it's really the collective group that matters.

It's important for us to all be aligned with the same energy on stage.

I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't anticipate is that when every actor has to sing a different part and then do all their choreography on the same beat or on the same word, it's really hard.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

Within an ensemble, like in sports, if you do your little job, it makes everybody look good.

There are lots of ways to work together.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

As a group we must make sure we're all in sync with each other. We need to be connected through each other's actions.

Ten strong horses could not pull an empty baby carriage if they worked independently of each other.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.

To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.

I played on teams with 24 guys pulling the rope one way and one guy pulling the other. I've seen how destructive it can be. I tell them, 'If 13 of you are insanely successful and one fails, we all lose.'

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

Collaboration is really important.

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

It really comes down to Mick. He's the one who was constantly trying to get these five people in one room together. This is his love, his baby. It's his band, and there's nothing more he loves to do than get up on stage and play with us.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

People must work in unison.

Being such a big band is never a problem but it can be distracting.