Solo Quotes
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I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.
Bradford Washburn -
Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.
Barbara Fredrickson -
With the solo stuff, it's like starting over from scratch. It's rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work.
Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s -
I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.
Miroslav Vitous -
The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results.
Jean-Philip Grobler -
I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin -
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
Abby Sunderland
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Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.
Tim Gunn -
What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia -
In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.
Evan Parker -
As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.
Sheldon Harnick -
The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.
Danny Carey -
Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
Harry Shearer -
A guitar solo in the same part of every tune - that's been done so much. I think solos shine more when you have them in specific and unexpected places.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance -
Tolkien and my dad had weirdly convergent ideas about the musical nature of the universe, although my dad would probably have been more forgiving of Melkor’s improvisation. You know, providing it didn’t step on his solo.
Ben Aaronovitch -
I really just concentrated on putting out solo stuff on my website, just trying things, but this time we thought it was time to do a proper record, where you make a bit of a fanfare about it. Something that says "listen everybody, I'm here".
William Orbit -
Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.
Tommy Bolin -
The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.
Steve Fossett
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I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.
George Thorogood -
I have done a few solo projects that I really enjoyed and would love to have time to do more. Key word here is time!
Nancy Wilson Heart -
I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on 'Beat It.'
Steve Lukather Toto -
I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.
Ringo Starr The Beatles