Quotes About Artistry

It hasn't always been easy, but you get to a point where you're not doing the solo stuff with any kind of expectation in terms of commercial or a business outcome, you're doing it because you believe in this.

One of my great frustrations for 35 years at the paper was the fact I couldn't play a record for the reader when I was writing about an artist. How can you describe the beauty of Emmylou Harris' voice without hearing it, the sensual lilt of a Duane Allman guitar solo without actually hearing it, or the growl of Johnny Rotten without hearing it?

The whole reason to make a solo album is to express what you can't express with the B-52s. The B's are so much about fun and partying and dancing.

I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.

I love Lauryn Hill when she first came out with her solo project because it felt like she just knew what she was doing.

It's really important to be free and be open and honest about the things you want to do. Just 'cause you want to make a solo record or another record with another band, it doesn't have to be an insult or a slight to the band you've been with for a long time.

I just like to work with other people, and I like things that are kind of a little bit bigger than that. I don't know. I just feel like a solo record just kind of gives me the willies a little bit.

I've always wanted to do a solo project. I've always known I wanted to be a musician.

A great solo does not make a great piece. Rather, a great solo in a great song - that's what makes a 10 out of 10. It's the combination of emotional feel and inventive ideas.

A great solo is one that's so frail that it actually teeters on the edge of falling apart, but doesn't.

When I write music for a film, I'm not writing a solo album, and I'm not writing a personal piece. I'm part of a team of artists. So I think like a filmmaker more than a composer.

One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of the accents that I do.

Solo, you don't have compromise. It gets back to what's great when you're a musician.

I'd like to release solo songs on a regular basis, but it's pretty difficult for me to finish them.

The solo album is really my way of branching out and doing my own thing. I'm mostly known for playing other people's music, so this is a way to just do something that is purely from my heart and my creativity. So it's really exciting.

I've always wanted to be in concert and do a solo show.

I know when it comes to the actual narrative of my solo music, it's its own thing. That's why I went out of my way after 'Crew' to not do a bunch of collaborations.

I was in bands when I was younger, and that's a lot of the reason I started working solo - it was always a compromise.

My solo albums have given me confidence in myself and a broader understanding of what I had to offer.

I can show my characteristics and musical colors both as a member of Bigbang and as a solo artist.

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

I get a little sick of myself as a solo artist. I get a little bit bored.

As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.

The reason I decided to become a solo artist in the first place was because I always felt that the results that I got from working as a team where everyone had equal say... ended up with compromised, watered-down results.