Solo Quotes - Page 20

• I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.

  Anne Waldman

  Done, Hitchhiking, Driven

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well.

  Roy Haynes

  Music, Play, Guy

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• That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.

  Roger Waters

  Thinking, Rock And Roll, Sgt Pepper

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• 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.

  Glenn Frey

  Nice, Artist, Thinking

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• Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

  Louis C. K.

  Art, Performances

  Source: deadline.com

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• When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel. It just took me a really long time to get to a place where I felt comfortable with the material and the recording.

  Jenny Lewis

  Song, Names, Long

  "Jenny Lewis and the New". Interview with Ilana Kaplan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 29, 2014.

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• My father was a racing driver, his name is Don Halliday. I grew up with it all around me. I have always been into fast, dangerous sports, even as a child. As soon as I got in a car I knew it was for me and that I would enjoy racing and competing. My mother was also involved in Solo One. She always said I was like my father and would want to compete one day.

  Liz Halliday

  Sports, Mother, Children

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

  Robin Gibb

  Focus, Right Time, Materials

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And I've always loved playing solo.

  Glen Hansard

  "Glen Hansard, Once and Again". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Even if it is difficult playing with other people - sometimes it's great, sometimes it isn't, but that is kind of the point of it. It loses its point playing solo.

  Derek Bailey

  People, Kind, Sometimes

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• You have total freedom. It's like, if you do a solo record, there are no restrictions and you can do whatever you want, good or bad. You can have these passing fancies where you go in to the studio one day and you want to do something like what you did on the way in. That's dangerous. You have to have some sort of focus.

  Patrick Stump

  Focus, One Day, Records

  Interview with Marah Eakin, music.avclub.com. August 9, 2011.

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• Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.

  Frank Ocean

  Team, Artist, Winning

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• It was a truism that all civilizations were basically neurotic until they made contact with everybody else and found their place within the ever-changing meta-civilisation of other beings, because, until then, during the stage when they honestly believed they might be entirely alone in existence, all solo societies were possessed of both an inflated sense of their own importance and a kind of existential terror at the sheer scale and apparent emptiness of the universe.

  Iain Banks

  Civilization, Might, Emptiness

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• There's only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing - you've gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants - but as far as picking the tunes and working on the arrangements, I take full responsibility for it.

  Gregg Allman

  Responsibility, Men, Kitchen

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For an electric guitarist to solo effectively on an acoustic guitar you need to develop tricks to avoid the expectation of sustain that comes from playing electrics. Try cascades, for example. Drop arpeggios over open strings, and let the open strings sing as you pick with your fingers. It's kind of a country style of playing, but it works very well in-between heavily strummed parts and fingered lead lines.

  Pete Townshend

  Country, Guitar, Expectations

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• Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.

  Quincy Jones

  Life, Brother, Wall

  FaceBook post by Quincy Jones from May 22, 2015

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• One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.

  John Lithgow

  Dad, Book, Men

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Stand-up led to me doing solo shows, which led to me being offered my first broadcasting job, being a VJ.

  John Fugelsang

  Jobs, Firsts, Broadcasting

  Source: chuckdaly.wordpress.com

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• So long his name and face are lost in memory-s afterglow; Nor do I recollect of pride or joy or doubt or fright Or other circumstance which marked that time for solo flight The cryptic words alone endure : he said -you're on your own- And down through time I've found it so - the test-s to walk alone

  Gill Robb Wilson

  Memories, Pride, Names

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• Once a month I play with a chamber music quartet. I play almost no solo music anymore because I so enjoy the interaction. The members of my quartet have become some of my best friends and so I really enjoy it now in ways that I didn't before.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Play, My Best Friend, Way

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• I Still Approach A Scene As One Would Approach A Guitar Solo. You Don't Exactly Know How You're Going To Phrase This Or That. Which I Think Is Beautiful. That Idea Of Chance.

  Johnny Depp

  Beautiful, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Iggy Pop, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2014.

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• ... We probably funded a rate of something like one out of ten solo teams.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Rate, Ten

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• Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.

  Joe Satriani

  Thinking, People, Care

  Guitar Magazine, August 1997.

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• Even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band.

  Vince Gill

  Music, Play, Working Together

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• Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Brother, Django

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