Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn’t see a space in which we could get anything together.

I am confident that partnering my Dollywood Company with a great company like Gaylord will create something truly special.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

I want to produce the music to a movie that I’m working on, like what Prince did with ‚Purple Rain.‘

Having the support from everyone, the bosses, whoever within the team, definitely makes it much easier for me as a driver.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top – I’m afraid that’s not quite right.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I’ve got nothing against records – I’ve spent my life making them – but they are a kind of historical blip.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn’t mean we have to wash each other’s feet every day, but we must help one another.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

Every relationship should eventually become a long-term relationship. Any director that I meet now isn’t just a director. He’s potentially a friend, and someone I can call to do a project that I want or that I have.

We’re making the music that the people are asking us for.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens.

A producer gets the whole vision done from top to bottom, to making the record to having the record delivered to the world. That’s a producer.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

I think we understand that for the Court to work well, we have to not only respect but genuinely like each other.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

I feel it’s my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

Writing a song is so personal. You have to have trust in someone you’re working with; otherwise, you’re not gonna come out with something that’s really you.

When I’m making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

I put out tapes, but I always kept saying, ‚Why am I putting all this energy into these tapes?‘ I was like, ‚I’d rather make just an album because I have a vision; I know how I want to do my records.‘ I always felt like an artist as well.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Usually, when you go in to make a record, you have 30 songs, and you record 30 of them, and 12 of them make it to the record.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

I like to work with artists from around the world. There are so many new inspiring filmmakers.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

It’s easy to make an album full of great songs. But I want people to go for the ride. The songs have to make sense together.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

If you ever go to a music session, you’ll notice that the musicians can sit down and start playing right away, and everyone knows what to do. Of course they’re reading it, but the conductor can tweak little things, and you can take that back to directing motion pictures.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn’t bother to find new ones.

Probably the reason it’s a little hard to break away from the album format completely is, if you’re getting a band together in the studio, it makes financial sense to do more than one song at a time. And it makes more sense, if you’re going to all the effort of performing and doing whatever else, if there’s a kind of bundle.

I work with my brother Finneas, and he produces all of my music in his little bedroom in our house. We actually tried renting out a studio for a month when we were producing ‚Don’t Smile at Me,‘ but it was really hard there, and we ended up just doing it at home anyway.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I have done one thing that I think is a contribution: I helped Buddhist science and modern science combine. No other Buddhist has done that. Other lamas, I don’t think they ever pay attention to modern science. Since my childhood, I have a keen interest.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.