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Quotes About Solo

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.
~ Susan Jane Gilman
I don't know much about only children. I was the middle one of three, and if ever I was alone with mum and dad, it was a rare moment.
~ Elizabeth Hurley
I think being on 'Glee' is such a great experience, but I think the best part was when I did 'All By Myself', because I love that song.
~ Charice Pempengco
The first couple shows I did by myself, I was looking around wondering where the rest of my band was.
~ Lindsey Buckingham
Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.
~ Bernie Worrell
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.
~ Steve Martin
It's too heart-wrenching doing the solo thing. I throw myself into it and get so excited, and then 2000 people buy it and you're, like, 'Oh. I guess it's not that good after all.'
~ Jane Wiedlin
On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
~ Kevin Morby
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes along.
~ Samuel Butler
I was never interested in joining, like, children's theater or anything like that. I had contempt for that kind of stuff. I needed to be the solo show. I needed it to be the Sandy Show.
~ Sandra Bernhard
I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.
~ Dalton Trumbo
Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.
~ Nina Dobrev
Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.
~ Howard Keel
People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.
~ James McBride
It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.
~ Robin Gibb
As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member
~ Tommy Shaw
I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's been mostly what I've worked with most of the time.
~ Richie Havens
By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band
~ Tommy Shaw
I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall."
~ Bryan Ferry
There's only one of me, and it's all I've got.
~ Shirley Jackson
The steward just asked me if I was not afraid to travel alone, and I said, "Why, it is life.
~ Emily Hahn
It always seems like such a waste preparing a meal for one,' Nakajima said. 'A waste of food and a waste of time. But I don't feel that way at all when I'm cooking for two.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Living on one's own is not always ideal - but then, neither is marriage. The mated format is charted territory. Those venturing into singlehood are the Lewis and Clarks of a pioneering lifestyle with few maps, unexpected ambushes, and an infinity of adventures. Therein lies its glory!
~ Barbara Feldon
I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them.
~ Bruce Springsteen