Solo Quotes

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

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.

Each member does whatever they want with the song and it totally changes it from whatever idea I hear around it. It turns it into a Sonic Youth song and completely away from it being a solo song.

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 out of tune and play foolish music.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

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

That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

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.

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.

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

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.

You don't make solo albums to have hits.

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.