Quotes About Music

The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra.

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.

If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my solo record, there's definitely a different kind of feel than Billy's songs.

It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

I didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.

And I've always loved playing solo.

Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.

I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit.

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

Oh. Yes. There. Is. A. Lot of pressure. As a solo singer. Absolutely.

I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently.

When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

I like being in the back. I've done that for so many years, I'm really comfortable doing it. I don't like the solo thing as much as I like playing drums behind someone.

I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.

You can go out and find ways to make your own record and get it out there now. If you really want to, you can be heard. Keep things simple. Learn to go out and play solo. That's a really really good thing to learn, if you're a singer-songwriter. Don't be dependent on a band because you may not always be able to afford one.

Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.

I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.