Solo Quotes - Page 8

• A band has a certain responsibility to work songs for years and stick to rules more. A solo artist can just do whatever they want, and also present themselves as somebody who's just singing about their life.

  Christopher Owens

  Song, Responsibility, Artist

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 5, 2012.

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• It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.

  Dan Deacon

  Goal, Made, Performers

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• If you don't have properly constituted civic authorities you will encourage vigilantism and solo efforts at retributive justice - which is anarchy, and God doesn't want his world to be anarchic.

  N. T. Wright

  Justice, Effort, World

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• I am not an insecure actor, and this reflects in the films I have done. Yes, there was a phase when I was adamant on solo hero roles, but that is over now.

  Randeep Hooda

  Hero, Insecure, Roles

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• The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

  Sasha Frere-Jones

  Guitar, Records, Seven

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I hate the solo artist aspect of rock-'n'-roll. I don't have enough personality or charisma to be a solo star.

  Dave Grohl

  Stars, Hate, Artist

  "A Few Good Foos from a FOO FIGHTER". Interview with Ray Rogers, www.interviewmagazine.com. May, 1997.

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• I think I would prefer to partner with someone once I've established what I actually am trying to do as a solo artist with my actual name.

  Michelle Chamuel

  Artist, Thinking, Names

  Interview with Robin Young, nhpr.org.

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• We must face the fact that many today are notoriously careless in their living. This attitude finds its way into the church. We have liberty, we have money, we live in comparative luxury. As a result, discipline has disappeared. What would a violin solo sound like if the strings on the musician's instrument were all hanging loose, not stretched tight, not disciplined?

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Attitude, Luxury

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• I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.

  Nick Jonas

  Thinking, Artist, Trying

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• I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

  Mark Morris

  Long, People, Working Together

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• I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play a lot of different kinds of music. We're getting toward the end of our business collaboration. If you could envision a record that you wanted to hear from me, what kind of record would it be?" It wasn't like asking him to fill an order, it was really just a conversation. For all the things I'd ever asked him, this was one thing I'd never asked, and I don't know why. So I was curious. And the thing that he was most interested in hearing was a solo record.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Order

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.

  Harry Shearer

  Ease, Venture, Equal

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Artist, Helping Others, Soul

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• Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

  Abby Sunderland

  Sailor, Dangerous, Masts

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.145, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Louis Armstrong is the master of the jazz solo. He became the beacon, the light in the tower, that helped the rest of us navigate the tricky waters of jazz improvisation.

  Ellis Marsalis, Jr.

  Light, Water, Towers

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• I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure.

  Seungri

  Sexy, Artist, Males

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.

  Jimmy Page

  Couple, Rocks, Play

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

  Jimmy Page

  Guitar, Vogue, Session

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

  Robert Englund

  Sports, Real, Surfing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I started singing at the age of 4, at my grandfather's church in McKinney, Texas. It was called Greater Hope Holiness Church. My first solo was "Jesus Loves Me."

  Quindon Tarver

  Jesus, Texas, Singing

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I had been composing just for myself, and people would say I played so orchestrally, and wondered if I thought about having someone write a piece for me for an orchestra. And I thought, I don't want someone else to write that. You know I finally had made an overhead chart of my drums and what pitches the cymbals and toms were tuned to, and what have you. And I started to compose just with what I had for my solo drumming.

  Terry Bozzio

  Writing, People, Pieces

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• From the time I started playing solo drums, doing clinics and stuff, you know I think one of the largest selling clinics I ever did was in Chicago.

  Terry Bozzio

  Thinking, Chicago, Stuff

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Real, Kids, Cowboy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Unless somebody's actually creating something and doing something spontaneous I wouldn't find it at all interesting, to watch or to create, so, I'm trying to make my solo shows something different altogether.

  Thighpaulsandra

  Creating, Interesting, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.

  George Michael

  Careers, Goes On, Andrew

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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