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Quotes About Solo

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
~ Buddy Rich
It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.
~ David Gilmour
I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn't working. I wasn't being myself. What I should have done was say. 'Girls, it's really time for me to go on my own. I need to fulfill this dream of mine to have a solo album.' And I didn't know how to do that. I wanted to please them.
~ Fergie
I can be a little messy and wild and carefree with my creativity as a solo artist. In a group, there's a certain structure, and everyone has a part to play, and being a solo artist, I can do as I please.
~ Dawn Richard
The whole time I was with 'The Temptations', I was accumulating my own solo recordings.
~ Ali-Ollie Woodson
You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
~ John Sebastian
I am so blessed to do what I love to do, but becoming a solo artist terrified me!
~ LeToya Luckett
I was terrified to go solo. It's lonely doing it by myself. But I wanted to challenge myself.
~ Amber Liu
Even at a McFly show, if I don't have a guitar for a few minutes... and suddenly being on my own, without my band mates and on the dance floor with no instrument and not singing, it will be absolutely terrifying.
~ Tom Fletcher
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew,And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.
~ Robert William Service
I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.
~ Nick Jonas
I'm single. I had to make a few changes in my life.
~ Kim Delaney
Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain
~ Earl Lovelace
The easiest way to keep a secret is without help.
~ Anonymous
I was always on my oddy knocky.
~ Anthony Burgess
I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
~ Natalie Maines
gli occhi mi caddero su Gatsby, in piedi, solo sui gradini di marmo, intento a passare lo sguardo da un gruppo all'altro approvando con gli occhi. La pelle abbronzata del viso era liscia e attraente, e i capelli corti avevano l'aria di essere aggiustati ogni giorno. Non riuscii a vedere nulla di sinistro in lui. Mi chiesi se il fatto che non beveva aiutasse a distinguerlo dagli ospiti, perchè mi pareva che diventasse sempre più corretto e misurato che l'allegria generale cresceva.
~ Francis Scott Fitzgerald
As soon as you step into the water, you are part of the food chain; you're part of the wilderness. That's why I like solo sailing. You can be macho, but at least you can be macho on your own.
~ Charles Ray
I was OK at tennis - good enough to beat Serena Williams, definitely... But no, I don't really like playing solo sport,s so I don't think I could have got to the top. I was just decent. Maths is my true calling in life, which is bizarre.
~ Lucy Bronze
A person who willingly goes into business for themselves - and intentionally seeks out 'solopreneurship' - is insane!
~ Michael Gerber
Kevin Nash came to me; he goes, 'Book, hey, Book, man, you know, this nWo thing is getting real hot, bro. And, man, we need some color, man.' I swear to God, that's how he said it! 'We need some color, bro.' He goes, 'We want to bring you in.' I go, 'Man, thanks, but no thanks. No way.' I said, 'I'm a solo act, man.'
~ Booker T
I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.
~ Evan Parker
Well, I go to the theater today, and its curtain - there is no curtain in this play; the lights go down and go up - and we start. And I live this character for two hours. There are only two of us in the play. And It's a complete experience.
~ Eli Wallach
I enjoy my solo career because I get to play smaller places like clubs and theaters, and the interaction with the audience is much higher quality. It also sounds better than a baseball stadium. Everybody has a good seat, and I don't have to play a specific part like I do in the Eagles.
~ Joe Walsh