Solo Quotes

I have always wanted a solo career, deep in the darkest pit of myself, but I didn't dare admit it to myself even. It took me a long time to confront my fears.

You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo.

I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.

Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him.

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 like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

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.

Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

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.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

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.

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.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

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.

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.

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

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

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.

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.