Solo Quotes

My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.

John Coltrane, he talks to god. He starts playing his solo, he might play for 14 minutes. For 14 minutes, it seems like he's talking to god, but he always takes a hold of the melody.

My solo albums will be instrumental, but I would be open to working with a vocalist if the right project came along.

I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."

I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.

There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.” -Jacen Solo

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder.

Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.

I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.

I've made solo records and that's all been a learning experience. I've just got better at singing and more comfortable with who I am and my voice.

It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

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.

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure.

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.

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

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

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

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

Slash can take three notes and make a beautiful solo. And that's one thing I've always really admired about his guitar playing. I'm a huge Slash fan all around.

I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.

From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.

My deal will always be one solo performance-nominated or not. Not some thrown together rock tribute.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

I was never the one that really wanted to be a solo artist, I was always in groups.

I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself.

If companionship is a mandate for all of our experiences, then we will miss out on many of life’s blessings.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.

There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.

Single" means you are brave enough to face the glorious unknown of the unaccompanied journey.

For few matters you need to be solo, for some matters you need soul mate and for many matters you need society,

The force is within you force yourself.

The force is within you, force yourself.