Quotes About Performance

I don't regard myself as a soloist. It's a color; I put it in for excitement. It's not great loss if a solo has to go. We've made songs without solos.

I love extended solos. I used to like them in the old days a lot, because it used to give me time to go to the pub for a drink.

With my first high school band ever, we would have these breaks in the song for idiotic solos, solos that were un-tasteful and would be shredding, but I needed to put them in there, and I realize now it's because we were playing shows with a whole bunch of bands that were all male.

Your solos should be as interesting as any other part of the song.

I tried to find a solution to the problem that I had, tried to find a way to start playing better.

When I was on 'SNL,' I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it.

Cristiano is an unbalancing player. His confidence allows him to pull off the plays he does. He naturally always looks for the best solution.

You have to think and act quickly. You have to quickly come up with a solution to beat a player, because most of the time, you are in a one-v-one.

Rather than complain about a thing you cannot change, I try to find a solution to help the performance in the best way.

If Leo is at his level, it's going to be very difficult to find a solution to stop him.

If I lose the ball I cause the team a problem. I am here to provide solutions.

My job is to come up with different game plans and solutions of being effective in the game. As long as I'm contributing to the team and helping them get results, then that's the most important thing.

When you're in finance, you see the company deeply - where it's running well and where there's issues you've got to solve.

I was in a band called Groove Solution. Because there was a groove crisis, and we solved it.

Game shows are like golf and tennis are for some men. It's not like going to work.

Some people say that practice makes perfect but I just feel that the repetition works against me and I start thinking too far ahead during a show.

'Rent-a-tile' means when you go to a dance hall, some people take the middle of the dance floor and do their thing.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.

I can't take days off and play like I did last night. Maybe some people can, but I can't.

Some people get into comedy because they love comedy. Then there are people who have a message and have realised that if they can be funny, maybe people will listen to it. And then there are people like me, who are just addicted to making people laugh.

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

Some people play very, very well just so they won't get embarrassed.

Some people, they do just go out there and rock, and it's perfect in that way, 'cause that's what's, I guess, natural to them.

The only way I know how to deliver is to focus; some people can turn it on or off - I'd rather stay in character.