Solo Quotes
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My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar.
George Thorogood
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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
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I cannot exist as a solo artist.
Courtney Love
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The drums can get pretty boring as a solo instrument.
Danny Carey
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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
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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
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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
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Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.
Debbie Harry Blondie
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I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.
Rod Stewart
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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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My first solo was in church when I was five.
Suzy Bogguss
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I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
John Anthony Frusciante Ataxia
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The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.
Steve Fossett
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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
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I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.
Bradford Washburn
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
Harry Shearer
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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
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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
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I played all the guitar parts except the guitar solo on 'Beat It.'
Steve Lukather Toto
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Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.
Nicole Lapin
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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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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