Solo Quotes

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.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.

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

I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”

I cannot exist as a solo artist.

Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.

My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.

When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

I've won a lot of times with my wife and son here, and I've won solo. I don't think there's a formula for when the come out and when they don't I'm simply happy to win.

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

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

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

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

I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?

I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

The nice thing about solo is I don't have to coordinate with anyone else's schedule, since it's hard for me just to have a free 15 minutes here and there.

I had opportunities to play with other people and give my self some sort of security, but for some reason I wanted to play solo and just put it out there.

If I have more creativity that I want to get out of me, I try to find other ways than pursuing solo records so much.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.

At a label, you are confined to the team you have, but I did all my solo work myself, and that makes you more agile and able to go into weirder corners.

Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.