Group Collaboration Quotes

Conspiracy is just another name for coalition.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

When Xscape came back together for a tour in 2017, and all of our shows were selling out, it made me miss being on stage and producing music on a regular basis. That's what I did for most of my life.

We are moving from sharing to cooperation to collective action.

You take from things that you read about in the news or things you hear about or things that happen to you, and you collectively sit in a room with everyone, and everyone decides what the funniest stories are that you've heard or thought of.

To sing with Led Zeppelin has allowed me to offer the best places I could afford to my family and friends!

My parents had bought a video camera for us to film Christmases and other family events. I took it down to the beach, set up a tripod, and I would grab two other friends, and we'd take turns filming and surfing. Then, at the end of the day, I'd go home and I'd make a video for everybody to watch.

I love being in a band.

There are definitely aspects of that kind of stuff. The whole team [of Legends of Tommorow] gets thrown together. They don't really know each other like that. They haven't worked together before.

I got started when I was about 15, or 16. My first break through was the Vans song with my group The Pack. That became a worldwide thing.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise, it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

Being in a band is all-consuming, and I like to have a life.

That's when we decided to stop in '66. Everyone thought we toured for years, you know, but we didn't. I joined in '62, and we'd finished touring in '66 to go into the studio where we could hear each other... and create any fantasy that came out of anybody's brain.

One of the pieces of advice that we give at YC is: try to work together on a project rather than just doing an interview.

As difficult as it is to build a team, it is not complicated. In fact, keeping it simple is critical, whether you run the executive staff at a multi-national company, a small department within a larger organization, or even if you are merely a member of a team that needs improvement.

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

'Circuital' was just so much about us as a band. We captured every song live, including the main vocal. That is probably my favorite My Morning Jacket record because it's really the essence of us being us. The solo record is just a completely different essence of just me trying to figure out stuff.

You need a group of people who will continually realize that you will run into problems, and for each you will have hundreds or thousands of ways you can approach it.

I don't like the five-person group dynamic. I just never have. It doesn't make sense to me that six people would just sit in a circle and say, 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval,' 'Now I want approval.' 'I have something funny to say,' 'No, I have something funny to say, me!' It's hard to make plans.

It was both exciting and frustrating to work with an orchestral group.

There is definitely an art to the dance that is being in a band.

Discord generally operates in little things; it is inflamed ... by contrariety of taste oftener than principles.

A lot of people don't know this about Wu-Tang, it started from a focused mind. I was given total autonomy to do whatever I want with them... They agreed, to me, to be a dictator for five years. And in those five years, it's considered some of our best work.

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

Part of being in a band is getting better.