Quotes About Music

I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and performance: 'This is what I do, this is why I'm here.' At solo gigs, I'm a DJ - I'll play two-and-a-half hours, and not just my own music, also my favorite songs by other artists.

I try to make my flow sound like a John Coltrane solo.

When I was 25, Abba was formed. After Abba I made three solo albums. Maybe I have been productive enough.

I'm solo, and I love being solo. I believe I went through the Roses so I could become a solo music-maker. That's what I believe.

The first CD I ever bought was Gwen Stafani's first solo album. She was the light of my life when I was 8.

I've got six solo albums. I've been round the world three times. I don't even think about the Roses.

When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

I like Mike D. We kept trying to get him to go solo. He wouldn't do it.

Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.

Music for me, it's pretty annoying, because I've never had a successful solo career and it bugs me.

The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.'... They come back, and other people come in.

I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.

No, I do it all, but I do love to play solo.

I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

I could see us doing solo material in the future.

I get to play what I'm feeling on my solo records, and I get to bang the hell out of a drum kit in Black Sabbath.

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.