Solo Quotes - Page 22

When "Here Comes the Sun" started, what happened? No, the sun didn't come out, but Mom opened up like the sun breaking through the clouds. You know how in the first few notes of that song, there's something about George's guitar that's just so hopeful? It was like when Mom sang, she was full of hope, too. She even got the irregular clapping right during the guitar solo. When the song was over, she paused. "Oh Bee," she said. "This song reminds me of you." She had tears in her eyes.

Maria Semple

Mom, Song, Eye

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I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

Dhani Harrison

Sleep, Guitar, Firsts

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I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.

Bradford Washburn

Climbing, Lasts, Minutes

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The solitary ascent of the Dru had the immediate effect of expanding the horizons of my ideas about mountaineering. It made me aware of possibilities well in advance of the times, which were characterized by very restricted methods. This was how the superb pyramid of K2 surfaced once more in the list of my projects. But I chose K2 as a way for giving concrete form to my new concept of mountaineering: to climb the second highest mountain in the world solo, alpine style, and without oxygen.

Walter Bonatti

Oxygen, Ideas, Pyramids

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I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

T. H. White

Suicide, Issues, Alive

"England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

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I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...

Linda Ronstadt

Guitar, Ideas, Sound

"Ronstadt Proves She Can Go `Home' Again / New album returns singer to her roots". Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. March 19, 1995.

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When I started singing as a freshman, I didn't sing for anybody - my parents or my friends. By the time I was a senior, the teacher asked me if I wanted to audition for a solo at my graduation. I was really nervous but I got it.

Toby Lightman

Senior, Teacher, Parent

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In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

Lin Brehmer

Music, Rocks, Heaven

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You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

John Cho

Stars, Athlete, Rocks

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

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When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, “Where are all my friends?

Kim Stanley

Team, Hands, Support

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U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these day. It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year. I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.

Gary McKinnon

Mistake, Government, Years

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Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

Laurie Helgoe

Nice, Player, Doe

Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.206, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.

Eric Carr

Kissing, Looks, Half

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When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in my life yet. I didn't have enough sense of myself and self-esteem and confidence: this is when I started looking to get my master's in something.

Kelly Carlin-McCall

Dad, Self Esteem, Firsts

Source: www.psychologyart.com

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George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

Brian May

Spiritual, Stars, Simple

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Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

John Bachar

Climbing, Matter, Stores

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He could ball with the crew, he could solo
But I think I like him better when he dolo

Nicki Minaj

Flirty, Thinking, Balls

Song: Super Bass Original

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I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

Tommy Shaw

Ideas, Expectations, Band

Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.

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I'd have to say that "Mr. Crowley" in my most memorable solo... I had spent hours trying to figure out a solo for the song ... Ozzy came in and said "it's crap - everything you're playing is crap" .. he told me to get in there and just play how I felt. He made me really nervous, so I just played anything. When I came back to listen to it, he said it was great.

Randy Rhoads

Music, Song, Memorable

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Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.

Nina Dobrev

Running, Air, Muscles

"Nina Dobrev's Secrets to Getting Sexy" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. November 15, 2012.

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If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

Chris Cornell

Stupid, Exercise, Artist

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As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.

John Frusciante

Being Happy, People, Appreciate

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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.

Stanley Clarke

Song, Nice, Opportunity

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I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

Frank Zappa

Thinking, Guitar, Play

"The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, p. 102, 2002.

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Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

Kirk Hammett

Mean, Use, Scales

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