Collaborative Performance Quotes

Every year that I go out on tour, I think about all the craziest ideas that would be great to go out with, and I think, 'I should see if Jeff Beck wants to join my band for a month or something.'

Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

I can show my characteristics and musical colors both as a member of Bigbang and as a solo artist.

You can do a whole scene in acting without ever checking in to what the other guy is saying - it's not going to come off great, but you can get through the scene - whereas in improv, that's gonna be impossible.

You cannot judge the performance of an actor in isolation. A performance becomes good because of so many factors, including the other actors.

I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.

I always think the audience should be part of the show.

I think there's something really freeing about improv, that it's a collective, creative, in-the-moment piece. That's really exciting and really frustrating, because it's there and gone. There's an amazing interaction with the audience that happens because they are very much another scene partner.

We have to sing in chorus about the topics that interest us.

It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.

I remember playing with John Zorn and Ikue Mori in Taiwan in a school classroom. There were, like, 15 people there, maybe, and they were sitting at the classroom desks, and we played under the chalkboard. There's no difference between playing that and the 'download' festival.

The Yale group was doing the Harold. So by our senior year we were trying to do the Harold. Again, we had no idea what we were doing. We had one guy in the group who was pretty experimental; he would kind of push us to do weird things. It was really fun, a great experience.

With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

I'm lucky to have had the opportunity to perform with bands that have influenced me as a musician over the years.

In a live performance, it's a collaboration with the audience; you ride the ebb and flow of the crowd's energy. On television, you don't have that.

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

When I was doing 'The Prime Gig' with Vince, we played around so much that the director separated us like children!

I feel like we're very lucky in the sense that Dawes can be the kind of band that plays with Bright Eyes or M. Ward but that also plays with Bob Dylan.

My name is on the thing, but the reality of it is, when I get up there on stage, I'm part of a band. I'm part of a unit. It's like a basketball team.

I think, coming from an improv/sketch background, I'm just used to having people around me to feed off of and support.

In 'Heart of Gold' at one point, there were 23 players on the stage with him. And part of what's magic about Neil is the way he interacts with the other musicians.

What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because audience members are constantly part of the experience. What they say in their body language, what they say in their eyes, what they sing with me... it's an 'us,' and there's a communication that's like... it's like church, man.

That raw connection between the two performers is something you can't fully plan. You just go with it and get lost in that moment and feed off of each other.

I love performing with a band way more than a track, just because it gets a whole new kind of vibe going and gets the energy up. You actually get to play off of the other people that are around you.