Sarah Caldwell Quotes

I love seeing people collaborate to make great music!

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.

For me, the conductor is a person who interprets along with me, and we interpret things together.

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.

We had our moment [with Marc Anthony] in the third or fourth year that we were married, when we did everything together: We did "El Cantante," we did the tour, we made all the music together, he produced my album [2007's Spanish-language "Como Ama una Mujer"]. That was a really beautiful time for us.

I just want to work with people, so I always try to find a way to collaborate in the best way for the music.

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

When you work with a DeNiro or Hoffman, they love what they do so much that there's never any competitive vibe. It's more about how do we do this thing together.

Good actors are a dime a dozen, but I want actors that are gonna be part of my team and collaborative.

I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Music and opera are a big part of my life.

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.

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

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

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

When you're making music, it's meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I'm writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There's something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I'll let them do it. I'm just here to fit in and see where it goes.

I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.

It's such a joy to work with different ensembles and create a collaboration. Rehearsing and building a performance is very interesting for me.

It's fun and super exciting to see how other people work, how other people write music, and how other people put things together. To me, it's an endless learning process, and I love doing it because everybody works so completely differently.

Paul Gray - he believed in my art, and I believed in his music. Together, we decided to change the world, and that's what we did.

I'd make a million songs with Game because we never had no real problem.

I really just wanted to put out songs with people that I was rocking with.

For those of us who make music together, I think it's important to realize that generosity on both sides is actually going to produce the biggest possibility.

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