Solo Quotes - Page 22

• Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

  John Bachar

  Climbing, Matter, Stores

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• He could ball with the crew, he could solo
  But I think I like him better when he dolo

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Thinking, Balls

  Song: Super Bass Original

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• I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.

  Eric Carr

  Kissing, Looks, Half

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• I would recommend a solo flight to all prospective suicides. It tends to make clear the issue of whether one enjoys being alive or not.

  T. H. White

  Suicide, Issues, Alive

  "England Have My Bones". Book by T. H. White, 1936.

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• I can't draw. But I can draw with sound. That's the most useful thing I learned in terms of what my craft is... The arrangements were mine. They were little lines and stuff that I had written myself... And I was locked into this idea that vocals didn't count, melodies didn't count, songwriting craftsmanship didn't count. The only thing that counted was high arching guitar solos...

  Linda Ronstadt

  Guitar, Ideas, Sound

  "Ronstadt Proves She Can Go `Home' Again / New album returns singer to her roots". Interview with Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. March 19, 1995.

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• Introvert conversations are like jazz. Each player gets to solo for a nice stretch before the other player comes in and does his solo.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Nice, Player, Doe

  Laurie A Helgoe (2013). “Introvert Power: Why Your Inner Life Is Your Hidden Strength”, p.206, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many similar elements: harmonic rhythm, placement of the chord changes, choice of harmonic progressions, similar instrumentation, vocal phrases, drum fills, content, even the timbre of the lead solo voice. I decided to write a song that incorporated all these elements in one record.

  Neil Sedaka

  Song, Writing, Voice

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• From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

  Jason Hicks

  Music, Guitar, Morse Code

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• In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

  Lin Brehmer

  Music, Rocks, Heaven

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• U.S. foreign policy is akin to government-sponsored terrorism these day. It was not a mistake that there was a huge security stand down on September 11 last year. I am SOLO. I will continue to disrupt at the highest levels.

  Gary McKinnon

  Mistake, Government, Years

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• When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, “Where are all my friends?

  Kim Stanley

  Team, Hands, Support

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• George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him.

  Brian May

  Spiritual, Stars, Simple

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• When I did my first solo show and it made my dad uncomfortable, I wasn't quite ready for my spotlight moment in my life yet. I didn't have enough sense of myself and self-esteem and confidence: this is when I started looking to get my master's in something.

  Kelly Carlin-McCall

  Dad, Self Esteem, Firsts

  Source: www.psychologyart.com

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• I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

  Dhani Harrison

  Sleep, Guitar, Firsts

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• My first solo was in church when I was five.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Church, Firsts, Five

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• You know, I always root for the older athlete. I root for the second album. I root for solo careers after the rock star breaks the band apart.

  John Cho

  Stars, Athlete, Rocks

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

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• When I started singing as a freshman, I didn't sing for anybody - my parents or my friends. By the time I was a senior, the teacher asked me if I wanted to audition for a solo at my graduation. I was really nervous but I got it.

  Toby Lightman

  Senior, Teacher, Parent

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• I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

  Tommy Shaw

  Ideas, Expectations, Band

  Interview with A-J Charron, www.guitarnoise.com.

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• I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

  Kirk Hammett

  Rocks, Guitar, Bored

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• Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.

  Kirk Hammett

  Mean, Use, Scales

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• I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.

  Dave Mustaine

  Stupid, Guitar, Play

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• I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

  Buddy Rich

  Thinking, Play, Mind

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• After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

  Stanley Clarke

  Song, Nice, Opportunity

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• I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

  Frank Zappa

  Thinking, Guitar, Play

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Ralph Denyer, p. 102, 2002.

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• Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.

  Nina Dobrev

  Running, Air, Muscles

  "Nina Dobrev's Secrets to Getting Sexy" by Erin Bried, www.self.com. November 15, 2012.

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