Solo Quotes

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.

I'll play with a hundred pieces or do a solo job.

I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.

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 in a band.

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

I'm competitive with anyone who writes a good song - I don't care if it's a band or solo artist or whoever.

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.

I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.

You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!

I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

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

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.

There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn't going to hang my hat up on my musical career.

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

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.

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.