Solo Quotes - Page 11

• I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Comedian, Causes, Jokes

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, music.avclub.com. November 13, 2007.

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• There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.

  Grace Jones

  Mother, Stars, Opposites

  "Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• When you play guitar you are drawing a frame around a moment and saying to the listener, 'Here is how I want you to experience this. How you begin and end a solo is framing, How you structure a song is framing, how you present yourself onstage is framing. See every corner, not just the center, framing should heighten the impact of the art and give clarity to your vision.

  Philip Toshio Sudo

  Song, Art, Impact

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• And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

  Kenny Baker

  Beer, Glasses, Play

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• I think there is more creative freedom as a solo artist by far because you might get a group push back on an idea because it's more of a democratic process. You can sink or swim on your own ideas on a solo project.

  Myka 9

  Thinking, Artist, Ideas

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• I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the Dylan song “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall.”

  Bryan Ferry

  Song, Fall, Rain

  "Hot Tracks: Bryan Ferry's New Solo Album, Avonmore". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. November, 2014.

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• I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to.

  Gene Krupa

  Play

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• It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!

  John Patitucci

  Swings, Groups, Needs

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• My solo albums were each like a half-finished puzzle; they represented only the beginning of a full picture. Simply put, they were inadequate and incomplete.

  Grace Slick

  Albums, Half, Incomplete

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• It grabs me, but not as much as it grabs some of the other people that rave about them. With the Black Keys, I'm missing crescendos with the sax, keyboard or guitar solo. It never comes to me. All my favorite music is rife with crescendo and I'm not hearing enough with them. If you can get the Black Keys to hear this, tell them I offer my crescendo guitar anytime they desire it.

  Ted Nugent

  Keys, Guitar, People

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• All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

  Ian Anderson

  Guitar, Play, Skills

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• I have to have the reasons to make the record. There are just too many records out there, especially when it's something as audacious as a solo percussion record with solo drumming music on it. There better be a reason behind it.

  Glenn Kotche

  Records, Drumming, Reason

  Interview with Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. June 5, 2006.

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• Actually touring solo is a little more difficult. It's more demanding than being under the "wing" of the band, no pun intended. It's more intimidating to sing in front of smaller crowds. The buck stops with me.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Wings, Band, Crowds

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• The chamber music repertoire is so vast that if one is genuinely curious about music, the art of listening, understanding and responding to a score, the elementary skills and requirements of chamber works are easily applicable to that of any solo playing.

  Wu Han

  Art, Skills, Understanding

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Playing inside the changes means playing enough of the important notes of the chord progression at important times. A good solo might be very free, but every once in a while it loops or hooks into an essential note that describes the harmonic change.

  Chuck Israels

  Mean, Important, Essentials

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• It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

  Ketch Secor

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Doe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Fun, Drinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The whole idea of jazz came about was the interpretation of the human dialogue, trading fours. When someone's soloing and someone picks up the solo and plays it back at 'em, it was the imitation of the human dialogue. It was how people spoke, through music.

  Wendell Pierce

  Play, Ideas, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Communication. It's important to be completely open and fearless when it comes to communication. Good, bad, happy, sad. Talk it out, hug, see a shrink, text each other, hurl marshmallows. Whatever it takes to ensure a deep understanding of each other's feelings. Cancer is not a solo mission.

  Ethan Zohn

  Cancer, Communication, Deep Understanding

  "Jenna Morasca and Ethan Zohn Share Their Story of Love, Survivor and Battling Cancer". Interview with Rosemary Brennan, www.glamour.com. May 10, 2011.

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• God created whammy bars for people who don't know how to solo.

  Dave Mustaine

  Fishing, People, Bars

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• I won't do a reunion tour unless my solo career fails miserably.

  Robert Plant

  Careers, Failing, Reunion

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• It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is not a crowd. Each member of the trio gets important solos, but there is also a real ensemble character.

  Richard Dyer

  Real, Character, Two

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• Duke Ellington's career traces the entire history of jazz. The repertoire associated with him contains the most important elements in the music and provides concrete examples of some of the best ways to present the music in the widest variety of settings-radio, TV, recordings, movies, concert halls, festivals, solo, small ensemble, big band, symphony orchestra, opera, Broadway shows.... You name it, he did it!

  Billy Taylor

  Names, Careers, Symphony

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• Nothing of significance was ever achieved by an individual acting alone. Look below the surface and you will find that all seemingly solo acts are really team efforts.

  John C. Maxwell

  Team, Effort, Acting

  John C. Maxwell (2012). “The Complete 101 Collection”, p.384, Harper Collins

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• I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

  The Edge

  Song, Heart, Needs

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