Cecilia Bartoli Quotes

You work in a band, and it tends to be more like moviemaking, I think. It tends to be more of a conscious, verbalized and, to some degree, political process.

I love collaborating because I come from the world of being in bands.

I've always worked with other people. As a musician, it's your role to basically share with other people.

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

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

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

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

When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.

I think it's the essence of any film and any stage production - any work where you do work with other people - of course collaboration is hugely important. One does, for awhile, become family.

It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.

I think all the music I do, which ties together, as far as I'm concerned, is fun and entertaining.

Collaboration is part of what keeps me interested in music.

Once you start to play together, vibing off each other in the scene, it's not just the notes - it's the music. The script might be the notes playing, but we're making it music.

Composition is selective improvisation.

The Band is sounding real good. We've been doing some dates together and they've been going well.

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one.

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

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

Yes, I'm a musician. I also like to play with others, sometimes more, sometimes less.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.