Wynton Marsalis Quotes

Everybody does their homework, and we all come together and just knock it out. There are adjustments to make, and if you have actors who are collaborators and who really know how to listen and be in the scene together, than it works out beautifully.

When you're dealing with a bunch of different producers, you gotta make sure the chemistry fits.

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

I love collaborating with people.

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

The lifelong goal of an improviser is to listen to what the other person is saying, taking it in, and responding.

I love collaborating with different people.

Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.

The Duffers can be super articulate or very straight to the point. I was really impressed with how they were with each other.

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

Communication is important, and when you have an understanding with someone on the pitch, it is the most important thing.

I've learned how to trust someone else's ideas with mine.

When I was a kid, I was a really bad collaborator. I was pretty introverted.

To get into another person's mindset and what they are trying to do with their project is a challenge, and it is what I like.

To do a comedy team, it requires so much extracurricular stuff, so much compromise, so much intuitiveness to know what the other guy is doing. That's why it's so hard to do it.

Never boss people around. It's more important to click with people than to click the shutter.

When you have more than two people working together, it gets a bit unfocused as an idea.

I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.

I've always been a good ensemble player.

Communication is an issue where we can improve, and if I can do anything to help, I am happy to.

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

What I generally tell a class is that if you're not interested in anybody else's work but your own, take another class.

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

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

We know they are doing their job in committee, that they are brilliant men, smart men, and that they are on the job all the time. We're just human beings down here-all different. We take all these things into consideration. You can't help it.