Solo Quotes
456 Solo quotes by 351 unique authors
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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
— Derek Bailey
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The composer Stravinsky had written a new piece with a difficult violin passage. After it had been in rehearsal for several weeks, the solo violinist…
— Thomas Powers
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I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
— Neal Schon
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It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,
— Paul Desmond
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My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
— Peter Tork
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I absolutely am a big Call of Duty fan. Every time a new Call of Duty comes out – I never play the games online,…
— Guillermo del Toro
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Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance.
— Richard Stallman
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I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’
— Dhani Harrison
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I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used…
— Andrew Taylor
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Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to…
— Aynsley Dunbar
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For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use…
— George Arthur Buttrick
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After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to…
— Stanley Clarke
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Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play…
— Ken Burns
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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…
— Carla Bley
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I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.
— Stephanie Rice
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It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.
— Michael Schenker
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That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not…
— Charlie Hunter
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Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a…
— Dee Dee Warwick
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It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
— Don Henley
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He was always saying, 'I wonder what Paul is doing.' When John and I were together, and this is about a week or two before…
— Unknown Author
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I dont separate my work with the band from this solo project-Im sure the group could have recorded any of these, and they would have…
— Christine McVie
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I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about…
— Noah Cicero
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Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.
— Barbara Fredrickson
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I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.
— The Edge
Who Wrote These Solo Quotes
351 authors contributed a total of 456 Solo Quotes, led by these top contributors: