Solo Quotes - Page 21

• I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

  Mick Jagger

  Music, Believe, Band

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• I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it.

  Dimebag Darrell

  Music, Morning, Home

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• My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.

  Jimmy Page

  Guitar, Years, My Favorite

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• Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Night, Guitar

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• I would just like to say that Ritchie Blackmore did a bunch of great stuff guitar - wise. I'm happy to play the solo from 'Highway Star'. I always thought it was one of the most exciting guitar solos I'd ever played.

  Steve Morse

  Music, Wise, Stars

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• This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the endeavour.

  Steve Fossett

  Want, Aviation, Flight

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

  Steve Fossett

  Flying, Aviation, Boring

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• Early on a difficult climb, especially a solo climb, you’re hyper-aware of the abyss pulling at your back, constantly feeling its call, its immense hunger. To resist takes tremendous conscious effort, you don’t dare let your guard down for an instant. The void puts you on edge, makes your movements tentative and clumsy. But as the climb continues, you grow accustomed to the exposure, you get used to rubbing shoulders with doom, you come to believe in the reliability of your hands and feet and head. You learn to trust your self-control.

  Jon Krakauer

  Believe, Self, Hands

  FaceBook post by Jon Krakauer from Feb 11, 2012

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• Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing.

  John Scofield

  Music, Thinking, Sound

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

  John Legend

  Artist, People, Records

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• I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.

  Ian Brown

  Vehicle, Lays

  Source: www.digitalspy.com

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• If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

  Joe Satriani

  Fun, Book, Exercise

  Guitar Player, November 1989.

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• I don't want any production credit. I think producers are overrated. They're for people who, first of all, don't know anything about music or arranging and have no ear for their own doings. They can't tell a good solo from a bad solo, stuff like that.

  Tom Verlaine

  Thinking, People, Credit

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• Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

  Tom Verlaine

  Song, Writing, Practice

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• I've won a lot of times with my wife and son here, and I've won solo. I don't think there's a formula for when the come out and when they don't I'm simply happy to win.

  Vijay Singh

  Son, Winning, Thinking

  Interview with Jim Gorant, www.si.com. May 2, 2005.

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• Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

  Richard Lloyd

  Guitar, Style, Desperation

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• There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

  Jeff Beck

  Music, Hysteria, East

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• Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

  Lee Konitz

  Music, Player, Vocabulary

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• My first solo was in church when I was five.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Church, Firsts, Five

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• You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Kissing, Sky, Crosses

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.226, St. Martin's Griffin

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• From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

  Jason Hicks

  Music, Guitar, Morse Code

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• You know?" he repeated. She smiled, so he kissed her. "You're not the Han Solo in this relationship, you know." "I'm totally the Han Solo," she whispered. It was good to hear her. It was good to remember it was Eleanor under all this new flesh. "Well, I'm not the Princess Leia," he said. "Don't get so hung up on gender roles," Eleanor said.” ... “You can be Han Solo," he said, kissing her throat. "And I'll be Boba Fett. I'll cross the sky for you.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Princess, Kissing, Sky

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.226, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I pray thee, sir, forgive me for the mess/And whether I shot first, I'll not confess. - Han Solo

  Ian Doescher

  Forgive Me, Forgiving, Firsts

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• I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many similar elements: harmonic rhythm, placement of the chord changes, choice of harmonic progressions, similar instrumentation, vocal phrases, drum fills, content, even the timbre of the lead solo voice. I decided to write a song that incorporated all these elements in one record.

  Neil Sedaka

  Song, Writing, Voice

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• I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos.

  Darynda Jones

  Guitar, Heavy Metal, Preference

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet”, p.123, St. Martin's Press

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