Robert Delaunay Quotes

In the Eagles, you have specific assignments. You have vocal parts and musical parts that need to be exactly in place at the right time. And if all of us do our job, it becomes something bigger than any of us.

It's highly collaborative, musical theater, so everybody has got to somehow get along.

You can feel greatness in the ring. You can get two guys that gel together and it's just like poetry or a work of art.

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.

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

When I do an operation, it's half a dozen people. When it goes beautifully, it's like a symphony, with everybody playing their part.

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

If people aren't in sync, things won't work out well.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

I love working with an orchestra, but there are many ways to make music.

I would love to be able to tap dance.

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

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.

How could I possibly have hoped to unite all my dominions when I cannot make these clocks strike the hour together?

Find someone you can jam with. That's a big deal. When you play with someone else, you gotta work together to get the thing started and in time, working and in the groove.

The movement of many people through a building can be musical, if the movement is harmonious, rational, but full of life and feeling.

What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

One of the greatest compliments anyone could ever give a director is, 'Everybody was in the same show.' That's something I think about constantly.

Theatre is such a joy because it's a group effort. Everyone has to move in tandem. It was lovely to be able to carry that over into 'Barry.'

It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.

All the small things matter. Communication. It doesn't matter what you are doing. You have to be on the same page.

As a group we must make sure we're all in sync with each other. We need to be connected through each other's actions.