Quotes About Solo

Doing a scene by yourself is scarier - you know you don't have other people to fall back on.

It is part of being a goalkeeper: there is nobody behind to save you.

I'm a good acting partner for me... when I don't have anyone else, I do really well!

A loucura é um país onde não entra quem quer. Tudo se conquista. Em todo o caso, ele, ele entrara como um senhor, soltando as amarras e as âncoras com o brio de um capitão que afunda o navio a pique, sozinho na proa.

The only time I travelled solo was when I did a 40-day trip visiting America for the first time.

Music is very similar to comedy: It's all about texture, timing, context, vocabulary, performance. When someone's onstage doing a solo, essentially it's the same thing as what a comedian does. They're in the moment. They're listening.

'Circuital' was just so much about us as a band. We captured every song live, including the main vocal. That is probably my favorite My Morning Jacket record because it's really the essence of us being us. The solo record is just a completely different essence of just me trying to figure out stuff.

But when I record my next studio album, of course I'll do the lead vocals.

When Alcatrazz played in Japan in early '84, the record label offered me the opportunity to do a solo album while continuing to play in the band. I wanted the whole album to have vocals, but the record company didn't want that. Initially, the album was released solely in Japan.

Do you know the solo at the end of 'Why Don't You Love Me Any More?' that sounds like a chainsaw breaking through? That is what I can't do with my voice. That's when you hear how painful this has been to me.

Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.

I enjoyed being single and selfish and only having myself to worry about.

It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming.

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

I'm really vulnerable onstage because it's just me. I'm not really trying to put up a front or act a certain way.

In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.

Obviously the biggest change is that it's me by myself. When you don't have another band interpreting your songs or playing them the way that they have, it's bound to sound different.

You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.

Don't bury me with anyone old.

The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes successful and gets branded with a certain sound, if the brand starts to become more of the focus than the evolution of the art, then that's putting the cart before the horse.

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

For me to do a project - I have a pretty successful solo career, so - for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.