Solo Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.

  J Mascis

  Song, Guitar, Together

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

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• I only do solo albums when songs are screaming at me to be let out of my mind.

  Graham Nash

  Song, Mind, Albums

  The Acoustic Storm Interview, www.acousticstorm.com.

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• People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

  Liam Payne

  Fun, Artist, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very honest about the things I struggle with and I need to work on to survive as a solo artist.

  Aubrey O'Day

  Struggle, Artist, Needs

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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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• For people who cannot get to church for various reasons, this is a great option. But it will always be a poor substitute for joining the faith community in person. Surely, the church experience is about more than a message. We are always better off together than flying solo. Godcasting is a supplement, not a substitute for weekly worship.

  Craig Detweiler

  People, Community, Flying

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• It was definitely in my mind to do a solo album, but I didn't know it would take this long.

  Britta Phillips

  Long, Mind, Albums

  "Britta Phillips Branches Out". Interview with William J. Simmons, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 9, 2016.

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• When I was playing with synth players, I was still within a conceptual framework of playing music. When I started playing solo, I became much more aware of the acoustic phenomena that the instruments were producing.

  Z'EV

  Player, Playing Music, Acoustics

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

  David Pajo

  Guitar, Punk, Grunge

  "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• I really enjoy playing solo acoustic. I think it's good for me as a songwriter to stay in touch with what it takes to make a song work by yourself.

  Jeff Tweedy

  Song, Thinking, Acoustics

  "Wilco". Interview with Jason Crock, pitchfork.com. May 7, 2007.

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• I've always been doing stuff, being creative. But I got to the point where I starting to feel this longing, craving, itchy feeling - which was the first sign that it was time. I've made a few attempts to make other solo records, but when I've looked back at the body of work I've always felt like I was never quite there.

  Neneh Cherry

  Creative, Feelings, Stuff

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• There are producers that have been my friends for many years that I'm still a big fan of, from Boyz Noize to solo acts. Justice. It really varies. All the way to like...sometimes I'll just find some dude out of Chicago that makes a great house song. I'm feeling a lot of the deep house stuff, Jamie Jones.

  A-Trak

  Song, Years, Justice

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I'd studied piano first and switched over to cello when I was about seven. I played mostly chamber and solo classical music. I got really involved with rock music when I was a teenager. I wired up my cello.

  Tod Machover

  Teenager, Piano, Rocks

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

  Tod Machover

  Growing Up, Opera, Chamber Music

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.

  Lauryn Hill

  Thinking, Groups, Happens

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.

  Debbie Harry

  Artist, Given, Blondie

  "Alison Goldfrapp Meets Debbie Harry". Interview with Phoebe Reilly, www.spin.com. April 8, 2010.

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• Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.

  Anne Akiko Meyers

  Strong, Four, Violin

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• Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

  Noel Fielding

  Funny, Humor, Trying

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• It's better to have no cofounder than to have a bad cofounder, but it's still bad to be a solo founder.

  Sam Altman

  Team, Founders, Stills

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• I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

  Alvin Lee

  Artist, Thinking

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