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.
A great guitar solo is really a song within a song. You can always go off and do your pageantry, but it has to be structured.
When I went out and started making solo records, I was determined not to, I guess, put my name on an album that sounded like Styx. I wanted to carve my own niche, so quite frankly I went in a different direction.
As a solo artist, it’s so easy to be lumped into a singer / songwriter genre and writing sleepy, sad songs that are very emotionally rich that mean a lot to you, and people just get kind of tired.
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that’s a team effort. It’s not just me, it’s everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that’s all me.
Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
If I’m going to go out to be a solo artist, it’s because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else’s schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people’s prejudices. I’d be kind of stupid not to exercise that.
My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
Harrison Ford has always been one of my favorite actors. I grew up with Han Solo and Indiana Jones, and ‘Regarding Henry’ is one of my favorite movies of all time.
I have done a few solo projects that I really enjoyed and would love to have time to do more. Key word here is time!
Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.
When you’re a solo artist and you’re not doing well, it can be pretty tough. So when success does come, it feels like you’ve earned it.
When I heard I’d be the first in the group to release a solo track, I definitely felt nervous. But I’d like to think of it as a continuation of the music I’ve been doing as part of BLACKPINK.
You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.
There’s always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando’s character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.
I know when I’m at full capacity, and two children is full capacity for me. If I had three or four, especially as a solo parent, it’s a guarantee that I would inadvertently forget to sign at least one of them up for school, or send them off with no transcripts or emergency contacts.
More people seem to know the Van der Graaf Generator material than my solo work – thanks, I suppose, to their parents’ lingering vinyl collections.
I really wasn’t planning on being a solo artist.
I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.
Now that I’m coming out with my own record people can see I’m a solo artist.
‘Star Wars’ is populated by so many great types; who wouldn’t want to be a Han Solo kind of dude?
Sean was a lot shyer lyrically in his solo career. I think because his father was such a great lyricist it was hard to tackle that.
Most blues guitar players don’t concentrate on singing and melodies. And forget about the bridge – the bridge doesn’t exist. They go straight for the solo.
Actually, the whole thing of being a solo artist has been such a learning process for me. Since I departed from my previous band, NIGHTWISH, it was the whole beginning of my career, there was stuff in the air. I had to learn so much.
I’ve talked to a lot of directors who direct solo like most directors. And they’re always like, ‘Oh, man I wish I had somebody I could direct with because it’s a lot of work.’
Don’t get ‘Return of The Mac’ confused as a solo album. That was just a mixtape.
I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it’s like a labor of love, it’s not a huge career. It’s not that successful, but it’s something I love so much that I’ll do it regardless.
I don’t know what he wants to do musically, but at the end of the day, I love Mick Mars – he’s one of the sweetest human beings you’ll ever meet in your life – and anything I can do to help him with his solo record, I would be more than happy to do.
I think fans acknowledged the effort I have made as a solo artist and as a member of Bigbang throughout the years. It is a very humbling yet gratifying achievement for me.
I was never disheartened that I did not get solo hero movies.
Having a solo career is a funny thing.
I feel like I have two different selves, one for being a part of SHINee and one as a solo artist.
My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It’s just that I build up to it now. I don’t race off on a solo. I take my time.
I feel that contemporary music, with very few exceptions, is missing the voice. You see an award show, you see a hundred extras on set dancing and special effects, and you don’t see that solo voice that was the trademark of Adele. It’s no accident that it was her album that ended up selling 27 million copies worldwide.
I want to show who CL is on my first solo album.
I’ve wanted to do a solo album since 2000 when I was writing songs for the ‘Machine’ record.
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.
So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don’t think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.
When you have 13 horns, and one is soloing, you have 12 people to play the richest, fullest chord you could ever imagine behind that solo.
I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.
There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could.
The best slide solo I ever played was on… what’s her name? That girl singer who used to be with that all-girl band? … Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go’s! That’s who it was. I played on one of her albums.
Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.
The good thing about flying solo is it’s never boring.
I was brought up on listening to 78 rpm records from crooners to opera singers to solo piano players.
While I was making my solo films, RKO was busily trying to get me and Fred Astaire back together. The studio wanted to capitalize on the success of ‘Flying Down to Rio’ and realized that the pairing of Rogers and Astaire had moneymaking potential.
Definitely, doing my solo stuff, it’s fun in a different way. I get a lot more say. However, there’s a lot more work to do because I have to make everything happen.
In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.
I call Earth, Wind & Fire my day job and my solo career my night gig.
The experiences you gain by doing something solo – you have such a great work effort there as well, one we all have now – we can all bring it back to the group.
I feel like there’s something in me that desires to express myself even more and not be so afraid of a solo endeavor.
I honestly think if I had been a solo artist, it wouldn’t have been as bad. Because I was being compared to three other girls, it made people have more of an opinion. If I had been on my own, there would be no one to compare to.
I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.
I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singing Black Sabbath songs year after year, whether he was performing with Black Sabbath or out on a solo tour. He said it was great.
The first song on my first album is not a song – it’s a guitar solo! It’s called ‘Frenzy,’ and it’s pretty much nonstop maniacal guitar playing. I had just turned 19, and I had some serious muscle then.
Firstly, ‘Dance plus’ is the only dance reality show in India with an entire panel of captains who rose to fame through their dancing skills. The show will introduce audiences to new trends and evolved dance forms through solo, duo, and group performers.
As a singer-songwriter, a solo artist with a guitar, I can only write so many weepie little bedroom songs.
Most singers begin with a band and then go solo. I started making music on my own and subsequently chose to carry on as part of a band.
The way we write our solo songs is that we take the emotions that we feel and put them in the lyrics. And we try to put them in the songs.
I never wanted to be a solo artist.
I believe that if each one of us have successful solo careers, it can only help the group’s growth. It will allow the fans to see individual talent and make them appreciate us more. After all, we are in this for the long run and have every intention of returning with another album as Aventura.
