Quotes About Music

My primary goal is to be a solo artist releasing original music.

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

I never envisioned myself as a solo artist; I was always part of a band.

I really wasn't planning on being a solo artist.

I can't even imagine how it must be to be a solo artist playing with session musicians.

As a solo artist, my desire is to express myself through my music.

If you think of a solo artist, you normally know them by their name; you don't normally describe their kind of music. You just say, 'It's so and so, or it's so and so.' But with bands, everyone feels an obligation to categorize them.

I never wanted to be a solo artist.

I'm not a solo artist. I love to collaborate.

I never wanted to be a solo artist. I always wanted to be in a band.

To put my name on a track as a solo artist was a big deal to me. There was no band to act as a buffer.

I fought doing dance music as a solo artist for a long time. I always thought there was a ceiling with it.

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.

I love all my guitar solos.

I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

There should always be some sort of conclusion or climax to your solos.

I can't see us getting into, like, long solos.

I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.