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• I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to.

  Gene Krupa

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• It is really refreshing to hear a big band that has the ability to execute ensemble passages with swing and precision while retaining a "small group" feel during the solo sections. This kind of "tight, loose" approach is seldom heard in big bands, whether they are professional or not. Now, all the band needs is to hit the road and take the music around the world!

  John Patitucci

  Swings, Groups, Needs

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• When I play a solo I'm just expressing that moment. It can go horribly wrong easily enough.

  J Mascis

  Play, Moments, Enough

  "J Mascis on the guitarists you really must hear". Interview with Sam Richards, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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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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• There're lots of musicians in my family, too. My mother sings incredibly well. I've got to make a record with my mother's voice on it. She sings a lyric soprano. We do the opposite. I'm a baritone. She's a star singer in her church. She always does her solo.

  Grace Jones

  Mother, Stars, Opposites

  "Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley". Interview with Andy Warhol, André Leon Talley, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 16, 2014.

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• I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.

  Andrew Bird

  Play, Shows, Stills

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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

  Eric Clapton

  Play, Long, Boring

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• Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.

  Sara Genn

  Shining, Values

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• For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.

  Alfred Schnittke

  Ideas, Needs, Definite

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• It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

  Aphex Twin

  Clever, Emotional, Should Have

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

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• Something that distinguishes my solo work from normal rap production is that it has a lot of melody - it's not just cutting up a song and having someone rap over it.

  Girl Talk

  Song, Rap, Cutting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.

  Glen Hansard

  Blessed, Able, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us. When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of — or alongside — the words of a song. I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Moving, Talking

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge."

  Wynton Marsalis

  Player, Judging, Balance

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• It used to be trained professionals doing animation and they were great. Now they have celebrities and famous actors doing the voices, but that does not always work. But I think this film turned out really well, partly because the three of us (me, Ray and Denis) are comedians who are used to doing solo acts and doing certain types of voices. The three of us are New York guys, we all came up the same way in the profession and we are all edgy and enjoy doing family movies. It was a good combination I think.

  John Leguizamo

  New York, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Quality, Violin, Lasts

  P.G. Wodehouse (1989). “Aunts Omnibus”, Hutchinson

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• Have a defined mission with clear goals and timelines. I still trust the staff, with as little oversight as possible. Do things to show them that their time is as valuable to you as it is to them. Don’t be afraid to ‘fly solo.’

  Pete Olson

  Clear Goals, Littles, Staff

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

  Kenny Baker

  Beer, Glasses, Play

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• It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.

  Ketch Secor

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Doe

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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