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Quotes About Solo

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.
~ Sebastian Bach
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.
~ Ken Hensley
The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.
~ Gerry Mulligan
My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
~ Peter Tork
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
~ John Cale
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.
~ James Iha
It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.
~ Kip Winger
I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.
~ Lil Wayne
I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
~ Dee Dee Ramone
And I've always loved playing solo.
~ Glen Hansard
Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
~ Victoria Justice
One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.
~ Patty Griffin
I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.
~ Miroslav Vitous
Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.
~ Rachel Stevens
I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.
~ Brandon Boyd
When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.
~ J Mascis
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.
~ Simon Cowell
You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.
~ Steve Earle
I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.
~ Jennie Finch
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
~ Talib Kweli
I didn't make a solo album until the year 2000.
~ John Oates
I'm not closing the door on my solo career, but with 5th Story, if the public demand is there, then I'll continue to work with the band. If not, we'll all go our separate ways again.
~ Gareth Gates
I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.
~ Kevin Connolly
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
~ James Bay