Quotes About Solo

Playing live is closer to theatre, although when you're up there on your own, it's quite scary and revealing because you're playing your own songs. It's like a one man show that you've written yourself.

Getting to do 'December Songs' in a cabaret-style format was so interesting because it's like a one-woman song cycle that actually tells a story. It feels like a theatrical experience more than a cabaret because I didn't talk in between. We went from one song to the next, nine songs in a row - bam - I told the story in half an hour.

My solo playing utilizes the deployment of suggestive psychic rhythms. I'll state these throughout a given piece and play thematic improvisations on top of that. I like to suggest that rhythmic movement without always playing it. I like to create openings that I can step into.

What is the word, Judith asks her mother, for someone who was a twin but is no longer a twin?

The thing for me is I never had this burning desire to do a solo record my whole life.

I began my comedy as its only actor, and I come to the end of it as its only spectator.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

I'm glad I was never in a band.

I had gone full-on folkie; I'd had it with bands.

'Sing It Again Rod' touches all the solo bases since Stewart's departure from the Jeff Beck Band, wherein he cut his teeth on American audiences for $75 a week plus expenses, and wisely ignores his generally inferior work with the Faces.

I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.

One day in 1952, I woke up with a high voice.

When I came on in '68, I was really the lone wolf.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

que tu solo nombre, el de la excelsa beldad que encarnas, ha hecho brotar estrellas sobre el mundo

That evening was marked by yet another magic moment in Ozzy lore as local Chicago photographer, Paul Natkin, captured the iconic onstage image of Ozzy lifting Randy by his arm during a guitar solo. The photo later graced the cover of the Randy Rhoads Tribute album.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on 'Reelin' In The Years'.

I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

If I have trust in Catholicism, it is because I find in it much more possibility than in any other religion for presenting the full symphony of humanity. The other religions have almost no fullness; they have but solo parts. Only Catholicism can present the full symphony. And unless there is in that symphony a part that corresponds to Japan . . . it cannot be a true religion.

I've only been to one concert in my life.