Solo Quotes - Page 16

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

  Robert Englund

  Sports, Real, Surfing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.

  Gerard Way

  Knows, Activity

  Source: destroyanews.wordpress.com

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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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• A lot of people at my school could play the "Stairway to Heaven" guitar solo, but they couldn't play three chords of a Ramones song if their life depended on it because they didn't have the strength or ability to do it. But all I did was practice that, and the style that I eventually fell into is more focused than people would actually imagine.

  Kevin Shields

  Song, School, Practice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Now, I'm a dad, I'm an adult. I've been solo for 25 years; I've been in other people's groups but I'm solo [in a broader sense]. I stopped comparing myself to other people's maps when I was maybe 24, really. The trajectory that I've gone on is not one that I can compare with anybody else.

  Johnny Marr

  Dad, Years, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.

  Johnny Marr

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The new solo album sounds like me: I'm singing about bad business transactions, bodily fluids, and courage.

  Kevin Drew

  Singing, Sound, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.

  Colin Meloy

  Song, Guitar, Stuff

  "The Decemberists' Colin Meloy". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. February 14, 2011.

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• The nice thing about solo is I don't have to coordinate with anyone else's schedule, since it's hard for me just to have a free 15 minutes here and there.

  Bill Orcutt

  Nice, Here And There, Schedules

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Uplifting, Team, Hero

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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• Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos. There is no lack on intensity in this program.

  Scott Yanow

  Son, Voice, Leader

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• The only time it dominates is during a solo, or when we play a low blues and I put figures in behind Eric's vocals. There's never any real problem fitting guitar and organ together.

  Alan Price

  Real, Guitar, Play

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• I had opportunities to play with other people and give my self some sort of security, but for some reason I wanted to play solo and just put it out there.

  Bill Orcutt

  Opportunity, Self, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Music, Thinking, Guitar

  "Lee Ann Womack Hits Road With Toby Keith". Associated Press Interview, www.foxnews.com. May 29, 2005.

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• We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

  Tina Weymouth

  Music, Together, Way

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• I do love being solo because I can have more of my own creative input to every aspect of my career.

  Rachel Stevens

  Love Is, Careers, Creative

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• The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through my guts and out again crunched like candy thunder. Oh, it was wonder of wonders. And then, a bird of like rarest spun heavenmetal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now, came the violin solo above all the other strings, and those strings were like a cage of silk around my bed. Then flute and oboe bored, like worms of like platinum, into the thick thick toffee gold and silver. I was in such bliss, my brothers.

  Anthony Burgess

  Wise, Brother, Wine

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• I enjoy making solo albums because over the years it's evolved into more of a genuine personal expression of story-telling and day dreams, and I work in a way that has more control.

  Bruce Dickinson

  Dream, Expression, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• What great founders do is seek the networks that will be essential to their task... Usually it's best to have two or three people on a team rather than a solo founder.

  Reid Hoffman

  Team, Two, People

  "How To Be A Great Founder". Reid Hoffman's Lecture at Stanford University, startupclass.samaltman.com. November 4, 2014.

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