Ashwin Sanghi Quotes

When you have an author and an auteur, it's a difficult and challenging relationship.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

I have enjoyed most particularly reading the correspondence between Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss. The genuine friendship, competitiveness and support that thread through their communications are life lessons for us all.

The artist-audience relationship is the most valuable thing, and anything you can do to fuel the long-term potential of that relationship is of value to you.

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.

The most basic excitement was the opportunity to work with Dave Cockrum. He was an artist I'd admired for years and our imaginations were ridiculously simpatico.

I wanted to create this dialogue between music and visual art and vice versa. No matter what part of the spectrum they fill, whether it's visual, music, or whatever, artists are interested in other art forms. Your brain is already kind of firing in that way.

The thing is that love gives us a ringside seat on somebody else's flaws, so of course you're gonna spot some things that kinda need to be mentioned. But often the romantic view is to say, 'If you loved me, you wouldn't criticise me.' Actually, true love is often about trying to teach someone how to be the best version of themselves.

For me, it's not like I am going to look at the money the director's film has made before their film... For me, it is about working with the director whose work I have admired.

If you understand each other's way of thinking, you understand what kind of film someone is trying to make, and all the ideas that I come up with will fit into that film.

Having a connection and chemistry with a director is really key.

I've enjoyed a great friendship and relationship and have a tremendous amount of affinity for both the Clintons... and I'd like to keep it that way.

There's nothing like a man watching a roomful of guys look his woman up and down to make him desire what he already has (and vice versa).

Even before the partnership with New Era, I loved the hats. The fact that they even want to have a relationship with me means everything in the world to me.

My collaborations tend to be pretty organic. It starts off with me being a fan first.

There's nothing better than to work with somebody who appreciates you as an artist.

Music should never be a dictatorship. It should be a symbiotic relationship between the musician and the audience.

You can't be an artist while you're producing, because you'll be over-critiquing the producer part.

Coach Saban and I have a great relationship, regardless of what people may think.

I have a good relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo, and we'll have good relationship in the future, too.

My relationship with my brothers... it's almost weird. We've never fought, we finish each other's sentences, but not in a creepy way. We talk about the things that we love and share music with each other.

I had attraction to work with Ang Lee. I wanted to work with him.

I think it's important that your work is in conversation with artists in your community.

In this artistic world, you might as well find a way to work with somebody that you have admiration for.

My longest collaborative working relationship is with Katie Grand, the editor-in-chief of 'Love' magazine. Katie's an inspiration and a sounding block. She's got such great taste.