Band Quote by John Waite

As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being…

— Dave Pirner

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.

— Shirley Manson

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.

— Anonymous

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being…

— Tommy Shaw

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

— Slash

I didn't leave the band to go solo so much as to stop feeling like a production item.

— Peter Gabriel

There were a number of false starts where I was trying to make solo albums. They would get constantly folded into group efforts. In…

— Lindsey Buckingham

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 was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

— Britta Phillips

I was never the one that really wanted to be a solo artist, I was always in groups.

— Tweet

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

— Mick Jagger

Now that I'm coming out with my own record people can see I'm a solo artist.

— John Legend