Artistic Partnerships Quotes

Being known as a writer did change the relationships I had with directors. The rap on actors is that they always want to inflate their parts. But when directors know you write screenplays and have a different view of things, you really get invited into the huddle in a much fuller way. And those collaborations end in friendships.

I like befriending my collaborators because I'd rather make music with people I like than people I pretend to like.

The real beauty in my professional experience has been friendships and collaborations with filmmakers.

In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities.

I'm very thankful that I'm in a position where I'll never be without a session. I'll always have someone who will want to get in the studio with me, or there'll always be someone that I'll wanna get in the studio with.

Most of my collaborations, certainly post - Howard Ashman but even with Howard, are music first.

There's lots of people I'd love to work with.

I've been blessed to work with so many wonderful musicians and engineers and friends over the years.

I've never been one that really won with major-name collaborators. You take, for instance, 'Angel' with Rayvon. 'It Wasn't Me' was with Rikrok. Nobody knew who those guys were.

I've done a song with almost everybody in the game.

I don't really have any "must work withs," but I would never refuse if a celebrity or fellow musician came along who is willing to write or sing or play on a Lita song.

Those are two artists that I worked with real closely. Me and Miley are real close, me and Future are real close.

Pedro's Almodovar different - very unique, very particular and difficult to compare to anyone else. But I've been lucky with many of the people that I've worked with. I think I've been very lucky with great opportunities - directors like Stephen Frears, Cameron Crowe and Fernando Trueba, as well as Bigas Luna, who gave me my first opportunity. There are a lot of people I would love to work with again. But, of course, I have a special relationship with Pedro and I don't think it's good to hide that.

The history of popular music is littered with great partnerships. Rodgers had his Hammerstein, Lennon had his McCartney, and Lloyd Webber had... his photocopier.

When I was on Arsenio Hall's show, he asked me about working with Kanye West or John Legend. I said I'd love to.

Performa's founder and prime mover, Roselee Goldberg, has great instincts for which artists might collaborate well together.

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

Ne-Yo and I are great friends and we've worked on a bunch of stuff together back in the day.

I'm always working my own thing. A few times a week - I try to not go too crazy - I'm working with some other artist. But I'm constantly working my own stuff, and my own stuff seems to come in little bursts.

One thing that I have thought ever since Temple of the Dog is that I would never say no to an interesting collaboration, and that's partly where Audioslave came from.

Louis Vuitton has a long history with collaborations.

When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop culture, fashion, art and music with candy. Since then, we have been fortunate to pioneer artistic partnerships with many legends.

You can't work on that scale without trust. I learned that from working with Robert Mapplethorpe.

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

Very few artistic partnerships last more than 10 years, and if they do they tend to go down the tubes.