Solo Quotes

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

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

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

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

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

In order to make my solo shows as interesting as possible, I moved songs onto very different instruments so that I was moving instruments quite a lot during the set. I didn't want the set to be boring. So I'd moved some older songs onto the autoharp, and they worked really well.

My first solo was in church when I was five.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

I could see us doing solo material in the future.

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

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

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

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.

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

I think it would be nice to sell 15 million albums as a solo artist. I'd have to deal with all the repercussions of that, but that wouldn't be too bad.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.