Patty Griffin Quotes

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

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

Working crew made me realise that the actors are a very small part of a very big machine, with each part being vital to make the show work. It so important to remember that it's not about you, it's about the show, and working crew hammered that point home to me.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

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

A lot of times, working in stand up, you're by yourself, and so you just have to rely on yourself only... but I like working in an ensemble.

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

Collaboration is something I missed at one point in The Shins. I really wanted to have that experience again, you know, not having everything rely on me. I wanted to have a partner.

Always, in every human action, there are leaders.

This is a group effort. This is group theatre. This is no big star turn. You could do things with it to do that but it would just be out of kilter. This is one reason I like this play. This is a unit.

The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.

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.

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

One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

I always want to be a part of ensembles. Besides it feeling safer, I think it's a more fun environment to work in. To have a bunch of people collaborating on something, it takes the pressure off of each individual.

A leader who has to go it alone is no longer leading anybody.

Like a lot of people, I have been a leader in some things, and I've been a follower in some things. I know how to work on a team. And most of life, frankly, to get things done you have to get done, you've got to work as a team.

Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.

Whatever we do as a band, none of us can do as individuals. We all know that, whatever we have gone through with each other and as a band.

I'm not capable of being in a group where I'm not the leader. I did it once earlier in my career with Legacy, and that was cool because I was young and green and a rookie in the industry, but now no more.

Allow your leaders to lead, and know when to get out of the way.

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

To me, it's really important to drive change through a team because one person, while the buck has to stop with somebody, the company is just too big for one person.

I always say that I'm not the director, I'm part of the team.

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