Solo Quotes

I always had this dream to make a solo record. I told my mom when I was 7 years old, but I just ended up being in bands. I'm a free spirit. I follow my heart, and it's led me to where I am.

Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

I think there are some good players coming up. I think we are at a point where people can swallow a guitar solo in a pop rock record again.

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

And I've always loved playing solo.

With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.

What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.

Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.

I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

It's too heart-wrenching doing the solo thing. I throw myself into it and get so excited, and then 2000 people buy it and you're, like, 'Oh. I guess it's not that good after all.'

The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.

I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.

I've always toured solo acoustic.

...black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening.

The flute is a weird instrument, especially when played solo.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

I always saw myself as a singer-songwriter, a solo-artist, that's why working with other artists was never satisfying for me.

But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.

For me I'm actually doing what I normally do when I do my solo thing and the other thing is actually more new to me.

Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

Hearing Marilyn Crispell play solo piano is like monitoring an active volcano. She is one of a very few pianists who rise to the challenge of free jazz.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.

Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

A lot of solo directors have a really strong creative producer with them. Jay and I have less of a need for that because we have each other.

As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.

I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn’t weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

He could ball with the crew, he could solo But I think I like him better when he dolo

Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.