Back Quote by Rick Ross

I'm constantly exchanging ideas with new artists. Honestly, with Jay-Z, our only interaction was a brief hello after I signed.

— Jay Park

I am just always trying to pay attention to how to communicate things that may not always be the hot topic issues and ways…

— Kirk Franklin

Collaborating with someone on music is the same way you'd go about hanging out. You have to listen more than you talk.

— Ricky Reed

The most important thing is that you're comfortable with who you're working with as a person. Forget the music, if you can sit in…

— Jarryd James

I collaborate with people because their music talk to me as much as mine talk to them.

— Angelique Kidjo

When I work with other people, I have to try to make their vision happen. With my own, I don't think about it. The…

— Arca

The only time we actually even think about our music is in interviews. We have to explain why we do what we do, even…

— Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

— Dianne Reeves

I never use someone just because they are great musicians. I work with people who have the same kind of feeling towards the music…

— Angelique Kidjo

I think it's so important that you want to be in the room with these people making music together, because that's what it's all…

— Kris Wu

Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and…

— Chuck Mangione

I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd.…

— Hannibal Buress