Kendrick Lamar Quotes

You've got to understand when a collaborator isn't satisfied anymore.

I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.

Working with friends isn't easy - the nature of an artistic project means it's about two strong visions colliding and a bit of mental wrestling.

Everybody knows, when you have a band, there's always going to be a hierarchy, and there's always going to be some issue where ego gets involved and causes some kind of shake-up.

When you get talented people together with egos, this is kind of what happens.

I'm not a good collaborator in general.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

I don't feel the need to direct. I tried to get other people to direct Dances, but they wouldn't do it. They all thought it was too long. One director wanted to cut the Civil War sequence. Another thought the white woman was very cliched.

Creed was ended by egos and people wanting to do their own thing and poor decision-making.

The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.

It's very difficult sometimes having bands, you know, when all the members aren't on the same page.

Being in a band is a really magical thing because you've got a family and you operate as this one entity. It's very democratic; everyone is involved in the output. But within that, there can be a lot of disagreements and strife.

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

You know, it's just tough to get together and do work with somebody.

At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.

I'm really puzzled by why people in societies find it difficult to work collaboratively together with other people in societies.

When you're in a band, inevitably, someone is siding with someone else, and you're fighting over something that happened in the band five years ago.

When you're in a band, it's like everyone's the CEO, and anyone could destroy it at any moment.

If you have 130 people on set, all with different opinions, sometimes it's going to kick off. There might be some people who say I'm a big problem to work with - that you couldn't tell me anything - but hopefully, they don't.

I think, a lot of times, that's why groups break-up, because people lose their individuality.

The hardest part, for me, is being in the band and knowing the way I want certain things to sound, but also having to listen to opinions, and very valid opinions, of my bandmates. So, sometimes, I'll have to have conversations with them as a producer and then conversations with them as a bandmate.

There must be some tensions in a team, which you can't always wipe away or smooth over.

Being in a band, you become each other's best friends as well as each other's worst enemies.

When you're in this music thing, and you got friends involved in this, of course ya'll gonna have disagreements, and that's gon' be the outcome: we gon' fight each other.