Solo Quotes - Page 6

• Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.

  LeBron James

  Knows

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• ...black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening.

  Jimmy Lyons

  Feelings, Black, Saxophone

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• In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day.

  Joseph Pisani

  Europe, Boards, Looks

  "Aeschbacher" with Kurt Aeschbacher, SF1 TV channel, April 04, 2008.

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• Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.

  Arthur Godfrey

  Writing, Who I Am, Years

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• I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

  Eric Clapton

  Play, Long, Boring

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• Have you heard Alanis Morisette trying to play the harmonica? She doesn't know how to play the harmonica. Well guess what, Alanis, I INVENTED the 'don't-know-how-to-play-harmonica-harmonica-solo.'

  John Flansburgh

  Play, Trying, Harmonicas

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• There are a lot of people who do crazy things without necessarily being crazy, for example crossing the Atlantic solo. Some crazy things which requires you not to be crazy to achieve them.

  Orlan

  Crazy, People, Example

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.

  Dean Potter

  Fall, Mean, Essence

  "Dean Potter, in his own words: I dream of feathers sprouting on my arms", www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2015.

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• I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.

  Dalton Trumbo

  Time, School, Joy

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• I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.

  Willie Dixon

  Years, Singing, Church

  Willie Dixon, Don Snowden (1989). “I am the blues: the Willie Dixon story”

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• Presidents have to be very organized to govern successfully, and solo artists rarely succeed.

  Douglas Holtz-Eakin

  Artist, President, Succeed

  Source: www.politico.com

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• There are no freelance Christians; there is no solo-flying to heaven.

  Alistair Begg

  Christian, Heaven, Flying

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• Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.

  Abby Sunderland

  Space, People, Globes

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Jimi Hendrix is the greatest guitar player in the world... a guy who mastered that instrument. It was talking when he played. And when he did a solo, he made the guitar cry - or made it sound like it was coming from the devil's amplifier.

  Bruno Mars

  Player, Guitar, Talking

  Source: www.sandiegouniontribune.com

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• I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

  Abby Sunderland

  Records, World, Break

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I am planning the release of 2NE1's new album for after CL finishes her solo activities. 2NE1 will surely show you good work until the expiration of their contracts.

  Yang Hyun-suk

  Albums, Planning, Good Work

  "YG Shares His Thoughts on BIGBANG and 2NE1’s Contracts Expiring Next Year". TV Report Interview, www.soompi.com. April 26, 2015.

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• There's nothing that compares to being in a band with your best friends. We're so comfortable together, we understand each other. It feels, like, normal. Whereas solo period felt like I was trying to be something, and play a role, and pretend.

  Gwen Stefani

  Play, Together, Trying

  Source: perezhilton.com

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• I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.

  Moby

  People, Facts, Audience

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• I'm just as comfortable performing solo with just my acoustic guitar and vocal as I am with a band. The main thing for me is that the performance remain rooted in the words and voice, that there be no place to hide.

  Michael Gira

  Guitar, Voice, Band

  Interview with Michael Idov, pitchfork.com. May 22, 2005.

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• Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.

  Tim Gunn

  Collaboration, Life Is

  "Tim Gunn on ‘Project Runway,’ New Book, Current Fashion". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. October 26, 2010.

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• Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.

  Nicole Lapin

  Real, Four, Stuff

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

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• Few people asking about my post Westlife plans!? I'll be making a solo album of course! The process has already started actually ;)

  Mark Feehily

  People, Albums, Asking

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• I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

  Peter Capaldi

  Guitar, Live For Today, Alive

  "My week" by Peter Capaldi, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2006.

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• My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

  Slash

  Dad, Rocks, Guitar

  "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. February 16, 201.

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• I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.

  Merry Clayton

  Artist, Play, Special

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