Words matter. These are the best Solo Quotes from famous people such as Donovan, Shane Filan, John Sebastian, A. Bartlett Giamatti, Christine McVie, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose the path of Life. One path is austerity and isolation, the other is Life. But they both lead to the same place.
If I’m honest, I thought Westlife would keep going for longer than it did – we all did – but it sort of came to a natural end. When we decided we were going to split, I thought, ‘If I’m going to sing, I’m going to have to do it solo.’ Also, financially I was broke, so the decision was ultimately made for me.
You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Music left my life for a while, to be honest. It wasn’t that I didn’t like it, but you know, I’m not really a solo player.
People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn’t be any fun being on your own.
There’s nothing worse than bad scatting, except maybe bad mouth trumpet. Mouth trumpet may sound like a trumpet, but it’s really more like playing a kazoo. The instant you do your solo, the audience has a bit of a chuckle.
I’ve been a solo artist for a year now, and I think I should start thinking about the future now. Every spare time I get, I want to be in the studio and work on music for 2015. It’s a lot of work.
I love a spontaneous solo dance party.
I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It’s absolutely different. The whole situation is very different – situations where you can’t really compare, it’s so very different. But I found happiness.
‘Even Flow’ is the best to play live because of the long solos. It starts out slow and builds, and, depending on what the audience does, I can reflect that in the solo.
Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.
For me to do a project – I have a pretty successful solo career, so – for me to even want to do Primus, it had to be a creative step forward.
I’ve never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
The Eagles are four very alpha personalities. We’ve all done solo work, and we’ve all played with very good musicians, but when the four of us get together, it becomes something that’s much bigger than any one of us.
Do you know the solo at the end of ‘Why Don’t You Love Me Any More?’ that sounds like a chainsaw breaking through? That is what I can’t do with my voice. That’s when you hear how painful this has been to me.
I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don’t regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.
The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric’s vocals. There’s never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.
By the time I was 17, I was in a band, writing songs and playing solo piano at weekends, in pubs or at weddings.
I do radio gigs, three-minute spots, solo shows, so I still get plenty of practice at the sniper attack – me at a piano or with a guitar, having to win people over fast.
I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.
I remember a song I did called ‘If the Good Die Young’ – I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.
Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.
At the beginning of ‘Solo,’ Chewbacca is a stray dog from the streets who has been beaten. He is very guarded and not trusting of the outside world. When the situation arises, he calls upon the powers he has and can do amazing things.
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.
Chris Jericho is a great guy. He’s beyond hysterical. He’s good people. They’re really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
I’d say playing with a group or playing solo are equally rewarding, but in a different way.
I guess you can look at Fleetwood Mac as the ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean’ movies and my solo career as indie films.
Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.
I like to keep fit, and when not gardening or singing solo or in a choir, I cycle, play tennis, swim, dance, and practise yoga.
My music has always been my solo project.
My solo albums have given me confidence in myself and a broader understanding of what I had to offer.
I don’t wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don’t get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn’t interested in that.
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it’s soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
I can’t play a solo without thinking about John Jorgenson. I always think about what he would do.
When I first heard the song ‘Eruption,’ which is Eddie Van Halen’s most famous solo composition, I was confused because it sounded incredible, but I didn’t know what it was. I didn’t know if it was a guitar. I didn’t know if it was a synthesizer or a keyboard. I couldn’t figure it out.
I don’t think a multi-starrer or a solo film has anything to do with your choice of films. That is a bit of a primitive concept, really. Yes, you might want to keep a healthy balance, but that has more to do with the kind of roles you are playing.
Some of the kids who discovered me from my ‘F.E.A.R.’ record or one of the U.N.K.L.E. tunes have said, ‘I don’t even like the Roses; I love your solo stuff.’ I buzz off that.
I do often feel that the single greatest thing about my job is that I don’t have a boss. I’m like an overweight Han Solo: I take orders from just one person – me.
I still approach a scene as one would approach a solo. There’s nothing set or pat.
In my solo work on my own albums, I have used voice synthesizers and vocoders quite a lot in connection with orchestral instruments.
I could see us doing solo material in the future.
Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn’t do any solo records, I couldn’t write for other people, I couldn’t do this and I couldn’t do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
The problem with country is we’ve turned the props into the play. Let’s not just Solo cup and pickup truck it to death. Let’s handle this in a smart way. Nobody is thinking about lyrical content, or how we’re moving people, or what’s going on in the background of their minds.
The only reason why I made solo records was because I got so obsessed with politics, and that is quite personal. I don’t really philosophically believe in solo records.
I’m definitely gonna do another solo record at some point. ‘Flamingo’ wasn’t just me dipping my toes in the water. I really loved it. It was successful, and that helps, but I love those songs, and I miss singing them.
I think a good guitar solo sounds so much better within the context of a good song.
I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.
You make one solo album, and some people swear you’re about to leave the band or there are creative differences.
I’ve always wanted to be in concert and do a solo show.
Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.
I’ve never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears.
What I like about ‘Game of Thrones’ is that there’s such a wide range. We have everything from very small, just solo instrument pieces, just the solo violin or solo cello, and then we go all the way to these bigger action moments.
In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don’t think there is any comparison.
In 1993, I premiered my solo piece ‘Hysterical Blindness and Other Southern Tragedies That Have Plagued My Life So Far’ at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre. It then went to New York and ran for several months Off-Broadway.
‘Hell Freezes Over’ happened, and the Eagles decided to get back to work. We’ve toured pretty much since then, and I’ve been around the world a couple times. I had never really gotten any momentum going in a solo project during that period of time – Eagles was pretty much a full time job.
There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It’s a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.
The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, ‘I want to go off and do a solo career.’… They come back, and other people come in.