Quote by John Coltrane

You've only got 12 notes and however you mix them up is your thing.

— Eddie Van Halen

You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.

— Eddie Van Halen

“Most musicians think that Music is made up of notes. They forget that notes are just a part of Music, and a small part…

— Victor Wooten

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.

— Carla Bley

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

— Bruce Hornsby

There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.

— Brian May

I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.

— Lee Ranaldo

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.

— Miles Davis

I didn't know the piano only has 12 notes. It's just different octaves of the same 12 notes. When I figured that out, I…

— James Ingram

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

— Adam Jones

I'm into the whole song-as-a-piece-of-music thing: if it literally doesn't call for it, if it already has enough stuff going on, then it's okay…

— Dimebag Darrell

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and…

— Steve Lacy