Quotes About Solo

Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.

My favorite solos are all very melodic. Those are the ones that are the most memorable.

But there were no servants here. She would have to manage by herself.

All around B-Mor it's much the same, which is happy enough. But maybe it's the laboring that gives you shape. Might the most fulfilling times be those spent solo at your tasks, literally immersed or not, when you are able to uncover the smallest surprises and unlikely details of some process or operation that in turn exposes your proclivities and prejudices both? And whether or not there is anything to be done about it, you begin to learn what you value most.

What I was about to attempt was a thing that only I could do. And I would do it on my own.

Thanks, but no thanks, Mr. President. I feel the mission will only be successful if I go alone. It's not as if I don't appreciate any help I can get. It's just...something in the back of my mind is telling me not to take anyone with me, something I can't quite explain. Must be another one of my weird hunches, I guess.

Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.

Some of the kids who discovered me from my 'F.E.A.R.' record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, 'I don't even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.' I buzz off that.

As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!

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 never thought I could travel unless I had a wife or someone to share it with. You don't necessarily need that, but I am the type of person that wants to share a lot.

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 heard her singing.

I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?

I was a solo parent. Not a single parent as far as I was concerned. Single parent implies that the other parent is around somewhere.

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

I always try to write the best song I can in the moment, and those songs are often going to end up on Death Cab for Cutie records. I don't set out to write a solo song or write a band song. I just write, and where that songs ends up is kind of TBD.

As a solo artist, it's so easy to be lumped into a singer / songwriter genre and writing sleepy, sad songs that are very emotionally rich that mean a lot to you, and people just get kind of tired.

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

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

You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.