Solo Quotes - Page 23

• I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

  Kirk Hammett

  Rocks, Guitar, Bored

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• I remember in the early days when we played six nights a week for a month and I was doing my long drum solo every night. My hands were covered in blisters.

  John Bonham

  Night, Hands, Long

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• Solo homers usually come with no one on base.

  Ralph Kiner

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• Sometimes it's the mistakes that end up leading you into new territory .. like the guitar solo on 'Peelin' Taters' - I had some speaker problems, but the tone ended up sounding better than if I had new speakers .. it's a 60's Nashville, 'uptown' thing

  Junior Brown

  Music, Mistake, Guitar

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• I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Strong, Father, Numbers

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• I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Play, Mind

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• I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

  Dave Mustaine

  Stupid, Guitar, Play

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• My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both professional and personal I no longer feel that this is possible within [Crystal Castles]. Although this is the end of the band, I hope my fans will embrace me as a solo artist in the same way they have embraced Crystal Castles.

  Alice Glass

  Art, Honesty, Self

  FaceBook post by Alice Glass from Oct 08, 2014

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• Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

  John Bonham

  Sound, Likes, Interest

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• It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo. You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  Oscar Peterson

  Music, Important, Sound

  FaceBook post by Oscar Peterson from Oct 15, 2013

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• In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.

  Thom Yorke

  Records, Bees, November

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• The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/ himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

  Tara Brach

  Spiritual, Self, Trying

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• Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

  Geri Halliwell

  Singers, Becoming, Intense

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• We are all musicians in a great human orchestra, and it is now time to play the Save the World Symphony. You are not required to play a solo, but you are required to know what instrument you hold and play it as well as you can. You are required to find your place in the score. What we love we must protect. That’s what love means. From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Love, Time, Responsibility

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• Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

  Tim Gunn

  People, Support, Collaboration

  "Tim Gunn’s Advice for Making It Work". Interview with Tara Parker-Pope, well.blogs.nytimes.com. December 17, 2010.

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• Introvert conversations are like jazz, where each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo. And like jazz, once we get going, we can play all night. Extrovert conversations are more like tennis matches, where thoughts are batted back and forth, and players need to be ready to respond. Introverts get winded pretty quickly.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Nice, Player, Night

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• No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

  Reid Hoffman

  Teamwork, Business, Crazy

  Ben Casnocha, Reid Hoffman (2012). “The Start-up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career”, p.83, Random House

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• Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other and each with the floor.

  Steve Paxton

  Dance, Dancing, Doe

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• Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

  Howard Keel

  Careers, Albums, Crowds

  "Howard Keel" by Sheila Whitaker, www.theguardian.com. November 9, 2004.

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• Im also performing regularly in Southern California with two bands. As a solo artist doing acoustic sets and a member of the Jenerators, my rock n roll band that has been around for a long time now.

  Bill Mumy

  Artist, Rocks, Two

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• Affectors Harmagedon is a solid blast of PROG metal complete with burning solos, odd time signatures, orchestral highlights, and Rock riffs that will tear your head off! Excited that I could be a part of this album!

  Jordan Rudess

  Rocks, Tears, Signatures

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• What did I discover during my solo—besides learning to unwrap my energy bar ahead of time? That you ask yourself a lot of questions when you're alone on a bike for that long. One question more than others: Why the heck am I doing this? When I was done, I think I had found the answer: For the satisfaction that comes with pushing your body to the breaking point and conquering the unknown.

  Matt Long

  Thinking, Long, Point Break

  Matt Long, Charlie Butler (2010). “The Long Run: A New York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to Elite Athlete”, p.179, Rodale

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• Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Guitar, Repeats, Bits

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

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• There is a gesture he has, a motion, that always reminds me of a great batter leaning into a hit. He has a way of throwing one foot forward, putting his head down a bit as he silently runs the valves, and then the cheeks bloom out in the way that has mystified his dentist for years, and he hits into the solo. When that foot goes forward like that, you know that John Birks Gillespie is no longer clowning. Stand back.

  Gene Lees

  Running, Years, Feet

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• I had taken some of my solo music into the record label. They didn't really care for the direction I was moving in and I found it really disheartening. They wanted a pop hit, which I understand in terms of making money. I get that. But what they were going to ask of me was something I wasn't prepared to deliver and I felt kind of trapped. I just stopped writing. I just stopped. It was stifling.

  Shirley Manson

  Moving, Taken, Writing

  "Shirley Manson: Rock Star Terminator". Interview with Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna, www.suicidegirls.com. November 11, 2008.

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