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If people have different styles or ways of working, a collaboration won't continue beyond one instance. Collaboration requires a deeper listening and the ability to slow down enough and turn down the noise of one's own thinking before anything can become of it. The Beatles certainly had that willingness, but it only lasted about 7 years, probably because everyone had their own idea what music is and wanted to make it their way, as well as the presence of Yoko Ono, who became an annoyance in the studio because she was an eccentric artist. I once had an encounter with a guitar player who wouldn't play along with what I was doing and seemed frustrated all the way through the session, and then proceeded to play songs he already knew. I didn't know the songs and I probably would have been unwilling to learn them, similar to the reaction of Yoko Ono being in the studio. Everyone has their boundaries of what they are willing to do.