Al Jarreau Quotes

I love collaborating with different voices.

Collaboration is much like a birth. The song that springs forth resembles each one of us to a degree, but it's the kind of thing that would never be born from just one of us sitting down with a guitar.

If you have somebody who's brilliant and highly creative with a different point of view than you have, and a very different intellectual background, great things can happen.

In effect, I feel like a blind, deaf, and illiterate person working through the sensibilities and multiple, real talents of other people. Everything I do is collaborative.

Creative collaboration is awesome.

I also feel that the only thing more gratifying than working with someone who you've worked well with is working with someone new and coming up with something great.

Magicians are typically introverted; they don't tend to work with others, but I work with software programmers, composers, designers, so it's a very diverse group and the result is always more interesting than something I could have done by myself.

It's really lonely trying to build something by yourself. It's good to have thought partners to bounce ideas off of.

I always love working with other creative talent.

There's no question about it: the best theatre is collaboration. The best anything is collaboration.

Invariably, collaboration leads to new forms of self-expression and to the things that move you.

I just really enjoy the process of working with other talented, creative people. There's great power in bringing diverse points of view together. It can be incredibly stimulating.

I'm one that likes to collaborate. I love feeding off the creative energy, and it only makes me better.

For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.

I think the best work flows out of a collaborative environment.

A great movie evolves when everybody has the same vision in their heads.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.

Fashion is much more collaborative than one might think. You have to have an idea and vision, and you have to communicate that vision to a team of people, and you have to create an environment that allows those people to give the best that they can give.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day's done, we've made something. We recognize that we're from different walks of the music industry, and there's no reason we shouldn't be collaborating. That's what I'm trying to create with thenewno2 - a sense of community.

I don't know if it'd be any time soon but I'd really like to work on a collaboration with somebody - I always have ideas for stuff like that.

I think you can write very good comedy without a partner, but what I love about it, working with a partner, is that you get to places you'd never get on your own. It's like when God was designing the world and decided we couldn't have children without a partner; it was a way of mixing up the genes so you'd get a more interesting product.

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

When it comes to partnership, some humans can make their lives alone - it's possible. But creatively, it's more like painting: you can't just use the same colours in every painting. It's just not an option. You can't take the same photograph every time and live with art forms with no differences.

In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.