Solo Quotes - Page 13

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

  Stephanie Rice

  Mean, Swimming, Thinking

  "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

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• 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.

  Carla Bley

  Play, People, Horny

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• I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that its extremely predictable, its a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and theres a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

  Ken Burns

  Thinking, Rocks, Play

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• Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes you looked up and saw you were falling by yourself, the object of your desire still on the plane, not interested in jumping, watching you descend into that scary place alone.

  Eric Jerome Dickey

  Falling In Love, Jumping, Scary

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• 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.

  Annie Lennox

  Taken, Artist, Years

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• For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Christian, Believe, Men

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• Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.

  Aynsley Dunbar

  Long, Bars, Never Quit

  Interview with Rick Mattingly, www.moderndrummer.com. May 1982.

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• As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

  Tommy Shaw

  Artist, Play, Band

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• Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

  Robert Plant

  Albums, Would Be, Terrible

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• The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

  Gerry Mulligan

  Orchestra, Saxophone, Mulligans

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• Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them

  Richie Sambora

  Music, Sex, Guy

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• What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

  James Burton

  Music, Song, Fall

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• ... Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and started waving, I thought, should I wave back and mess up the solo or should I just grin and carry on ? ... I just grinned

  Martin Barre

  Music, Pages, Rooms

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• Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.

  Thom Yorke

  Brilliant, Radiohead, Output

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• There are some pop songs I hate but I can't get them out of my head. Our songs also have the standard pop format: Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, solo, bad solo. All in all, I think we sound like The Knack and the Bay City Rollers being molested by Black Flag and Black Sabbath.

  Kurt Cobain

  Song, Hate, Thinking

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• Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.

  Max McKeown

  Teamwork, Sports, Team Building

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• Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.

  Leonard Sweet

  Teamwork, Jesus, Ministry

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• I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

  Jimmy Page

  Heaven, Levels, Lasts

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• Junior told me once that he was very impressed by Jimi Hendrix, by the way he was very wild, and yet he was very controlled. He knew where everything was going in a solo, and he (Junior), I think tries for the same effect, and I think he hits it virtually every time.

  Mitch Mitchell

  Thinking, Trying, Juniors

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• EVERY SINGLE DANCER, SINGER and BAND MEMBER is a BRILLIANT SOLO ARTIST

  Ben Brantley

  Artist, Dancer, Band

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• I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

  Brian Setzer

  Guitar, Hook, Use

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• Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.

  Harriet Monroe

  Stars, Long, Littles

  Harriet Monroe (1938). “A poet's life: seventy years in a changing world”, Macmillan

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• When I do my solo concerts, I'm used to being on the stage for two hours solid, singing 16 songs. And when I did 'Funny Thing,' I was on the stage the whole time. This is much more difficult. It's the difference between racing and sprinting. This is sprinting. And I have to learn to pace myself.

  Micky Dolenz

  Song, Funny Things, Two

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• All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

  Bobby Vinton

  Song, Voice, Surfing

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• A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is an absolutely extraordinary and bold career move that Darwin has made in leaving the Orchestra and embarking on the trajectory of a solo performer/educator. And what a marvelous thing it is for Detroit to be able to welcome home a successful native son - one in whom the community can take pride, and one who will serve as an inspiration to a younger generation of aspiring performers eager to make their mark in the world.

  David Cerone

  Inspiration, Moving, Home

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