Bits Quote by Robyn Hitchcock

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

— John Frusciante

A great guitar solo is really a song within a song. You can always go off and do your pageantry, but it has to…

— Orianthi

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but…

— Charlie Hunter

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

— Anonymous

I think a good guitar solo sounds so much better within the context of a good song.

— Gary Moore

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and…

— Angus Young

Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

— J Mascis

You want a solo to be structured, a song within a song, but you want it to sound like it's the first time you're…

— Orianthi

I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.

— Thalia Zedek

A guitar solo in the same part of every tune - that's been done so much. I think solos shine more when you have…

— Frank Iero

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and…

— John Frusciante

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I…

— John Frusciante