Solo Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Sorrow, Distillation

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• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Feet, Climbing

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• It's really a lot of fun to see that this music can actually survive, that it can be concert music. My solo shows are already going along that path. You have the freedom to basically push to party, or you can tell a story from nothing with soundscapes, moving images, to a real party mood. At some concerts, people get out of their seats and start dancing after a while.

  Pantha du Prince

  Fun, Real, Party

  "Pantha du Prince’s Bell Hooks". Interview with Nathan Reese, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2013.

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• Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a set, it's a collaborative effort. It's about me being a tool for somebody else to create a story and a character from nothing, from their imagination.

  Dane Cook

  Character, Imagination, Effort

  "Dane Cook Talks Comedy Special TROUBLEMAKER, Following His Plan for a Live Show, His Upcoming Indie 400 DAYS, and More". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Since I started making films, I've been a nut for dialogue. When I first saw Star Wars when I was 12 years old, I came home and recited all of the lines from it. Before I talked about Death Stars exploding and Tie Fighters I was talking about how funny Princess Leia was and how sarcastic Han Solo was. So to me that's always the most important thing, and I love hearing great actors say great lines.

  Bryan Singer

  Sarcastic, Stars, War

  Source: collider.com

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• I do media every day I tour and the travel itself is a bit testing, so I don't get to do much gregarious activity when I'm on the road, but I do enough barbequing and enough hanging out and training with enough law enforcement and military to keep me bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and to make sure my guitar solos every night breath fire.

  Ted Nugent

  Military, Night, Fire

  Source: hardrockhaven.net

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• 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 their palate alone is their reason of existence.
  [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]

  Juvenal

  Eating, Reason, Palate

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• Art, like sex, cannot be carried on indefinitely solo; after all, they have the same enemy, sterility.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Art, Sex, Enemy

  Ursula K. Le Guin, Susan Wood (1980). “The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction”, p.27, Ultramarine Publishing

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• Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.

  Robert Glasper

  Iphone, Long, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I've always been a fan of the band setting. I've always been a believer in bands, and I've always been in bands. That's where my comfort zone is. So to stand outside of that, that was never my intention or goal. I never had the dream of, 'I'm gonna go into all these bands as a spring board for my solo work.' But life takes you on different journeys sometimes. I ended up playing a bunch of songs and some of them I really liked.

  Frank Iero

  Dream, Song, Spring

  Source: www.alterthepress.com

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