Solo Quotes

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.

I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

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.

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. I didn't want the set to be boring. So I'd moved some older songs onto the autoharp, and they worked really well.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

I could see us doing solo material in the future.