Solo Quotes - Page 7

In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system?

Sara Genn

Artist, Unique, Voice

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Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

Cy Coleman

Song, Artist, Credit

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When I got to Performing Arts, within the first week, a few days, Bill Charlap walked in and couldn't read music but he's playing all these solos from Keith Emerson of ELP, and Rick Wakeman from Yes. Real impressive rock piano and keyboard things. And we had really, truly amazing young 13-14 year old classical players in our year who had been practicing six, eight hours a day for eight years. So it was like "Whoa."

Jon Gordon

Art, Real, Player

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People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.

James McBride

Home, Keys, People

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For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

Bret Michaels

Artist, Want, Nostalgia

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Our society loves to romanticize the idea of the single, solo inventor who, working late in the lab one night, makes an earthshaking discovery, and voila, overnight everything's changed. That's a very appealing picture; however, it's just not true. Medicine today is a team sport.

Nguyen Quyen

Sports, Team, Night

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Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

Nguyen Quyen

Sports, Motivation, Team

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I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

Charlie Watts

Honest, Rich, Ifs

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Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.

Bernie Worrell

Mean, Want, Firsts

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That's what my music... I'm working on a solo record right now, it's gonna be more hip-hop than anything, like electronic hip-hop, futuristic hip-hop. I'm probably gonna be rapping on it.

Alan Vega

Rap, Hip Hop, Records

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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.

Obie Trice

Artist, Black, Detroit

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

Ricky Skaggs

Art, Shining, Rhythm

"It's good being Ricky Skaggs these days". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 26, 2012.

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There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance.

Chad Smith

Guitar, People, Rawness

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Billboard called my solo album, 'Standing In The Spotlight,' a great party album and even said that my raps put the Beastie Boys to shame.

Dee Dee Ramone

Party, Rap, Boys

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I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

Amy Ray

Girl, Writing, Thinking

"Another side of Amy Ray" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.

Amy Ray

Mean, Successful, Careers

"Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.

Bernadette Peters

Gay, Men, Knowing

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

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Sometimes you think "Okay, well I'm going to play my horn, and I'm going to study Charlie "Bird" Parker solos or [John Coltrain] or whatever." But as [Phil Wood] said to me, "Man, Bird listened to everything."

Jon Gordon

Men, Thinking, Play

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I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything.

Miroslav Vitous

Europe, Together, Sound

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On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

Noel Redding

Bass

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You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

Benmont Tench

Song, Crazy, Emotional

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As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.

Martin Gore

Song, Thinking, Projects

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You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.

Martin Gore

Differences, People, Creative

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Now because he saved the day they're making another solo Hulk movie after the second Avengers comes out.

Lou Ferrigno

Saved, Avengers

"Is Marvel Planning a Hulk Standalone Movie for Phase Three?" by B.Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 02, 2014.

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I'm not one of these guys to do my solo stuff one night and Black Sabbath the next. I can't do that, you know. It's too much to handle.

Ozzy Osbourne

Night, Guy, Black

"Ozzy Osbourne: I'm the Luckiest Man in the World". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. October 22, 2014.

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