Quotes About Performance

All I did was basically play myself in the role of Napoleon Solo.

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

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.

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

My first solo was in church when I was five.

Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

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

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.

And I've always loved playing solo.

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.

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

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

I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.

I've always wanted to pull off 'No One is to Blame' by Howard Jones. I've done that a couple times in solo shows, but I can't figure out how to do that with a full band and make it work.

Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills have improved immensely as I've gone more solo, because I've had this opportunity.

Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.

When I first went from a band situation to a solo situation, it was quite an adjustment to make. But after having done it for a number of years, it really feels good out there.

Sometimes I do 'So Desperate' solo in the middle of the set. I really love to sing that song.

Most people don't really need to hear a six-minute guitar solo that modulates between five keys and time signatures. What they want is a good song.

It's very hard to find a pianist that's willing to play the so-called accompanist role on part of the program and yet be capable of being a great solo pianist that you would want for the big sonatas.

I'm not saying I'll never go solo - never is a long time - but I've always been onstage with someone else. That way, you're in it together, and you can feel, together, when the songs are right.