Richard Dawson Quotes

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

One of the things I've learned from animation is that some guys are really good at writing, some guys are really good at design, some guys are really good at directing. It's almost like working in a band - not everybody plays every instrument.

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

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.

Songwriting is a give-and-take process, and it can lead to some good, healthy debates.

Picture-taking is an ensemble art - like theater.

Working with a bunch of actors is like trying to tune each violin.

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.

If you want me to work with you, then come with an idea. Come with music.

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.

When you're songwriting, it's like talking about your own life experience. When you're with a band, you have to compromise.

Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been.

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

I'm inspired by the sheer ingenuity and intelligence possessed by my fellow band mates.

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

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

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

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.

Part of the process of acting in a film that you're also directing is really trusting the people around you to capture your vision, which hopefully you have communicated well to them.

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.

Films are not mathematics - that's the first thing you need to understand. At least, that's how I feel. They are not words on paper. Films are made with people, with teams and with individual bundles of creativity coming together to fulfill the vision of an individual who is the director of the film.

Music is like a conversation. One person says one thing that speaks with a harmonica, with a bass, with a drum. They're all conversating, and we're just trying to find a way to make conversation rather than blah, blah, blah. But it's not really so hard a thing to do if you know the way to approach it.