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My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.

Sue Grafton

Fall, Decision, Merit

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Spent the fortnight gone in the music room reworking my year's fragments into a 'sextet for overlapping soloists': piano, clarinet, 'cello, flute, oboe, and violin, each in its own language of key, scale, and color. In the first set, each solo is interrupted by its successor; in the second, each interruption is recontinued, in order. Revolutionary or gimmicky? Shan't know until it's finished, and by then it'll be too late.

David Mitchell

Keys, Order, Color

David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.445, Random House

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When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

Matthew Woodring Stover

Knows, Uncertainty

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I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.

Kim Deal

Spring, Track, Albums

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I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

Bjork

Albums, Three, Narcissistic

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I had to get out of my record deal that I signed with my previous band and get a full solo record deal going so, with all of the paperwork that, that entails it did take a while.

Sebastian Bach

Band, Records, Deals

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The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.

Sebastian Bach

Looks, Want, Way

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Look at what you've done, you're losing me is what you've won. Got me planning to go solo

Demi Lovato

Looks, Done, Losing

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Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

Sammy Hagar

Brother, Writing, Feet

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I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.

Sammy Hagar

Thinking, Blood, Stuff

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(Talks about a school production) 'There was one solo; but it was a guy. It was this character called 'Freddy Fast Talk' and it was the bad guy. I didn't care, I was like I will dress up like a guy, I want to sing that song. And so I remembered we drew on eyebrows, and I had like a moustache,and we put all my hair up in this hat. So I dressed like a guy and sang the solo.

Taylor Swift

Song, School, Character

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So if you care to find me/ Look to the western sky/ As someone told me lately/ Everyone deserves the chance to fly!/ And if I'm flying solo/ At least I'm flying free/ Tell those who'd ground me/ Take a message back from me/ Tell them how I am defying gravity!/ I'm flying high defying gravity/ And soon I'll match them in renown./ And nobody in all of Oz/ No Wizard that there is or was/ Is ever gonna bring me down!/

Stephen Schwartz

Flying High, Sky, Messages

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Time ain’t nothing, but time. It’s a verse with no rhyme, And it all come down to you. «El tiempo solo es tiempo. Es un verso sin rima, y todo depende de ti.»

Kerstin Gier

Sin, Rhyme, Verses

Kerstin Gier (2011). “Zafiro (Rubí 2)”, p.210, MONTENA

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I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.

Talib Kweli

Writing, Play, Collaboration

"Hip-hop artist Talib Kweli". "The Tavis Smiley show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 17, 2013.

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In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.

Norah Jones

Weekend, College, Best Practices

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I've always toured solo acoustic.

Jewel

Acoustics

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The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera.

Ken Hensley

Writing, Careers, Priorities

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Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Don Henley

Successful, Rocks, Groups

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

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I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.

Herbie Hancock

Piano

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Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the galaxy, you might as well be eight feet tall and covered with hair.

Charles Yu

Eight, Hair, Feet

Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.30, Vintage

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Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs." -Jaina Solo

Michael A. Stackpole

Jobs, Hero, Looks

Michael A Stackpole (2012). “Star Wars: The New Jedi Order - Dark Tide Ruin”, p.41, Random House

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I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Jon Lord

Use, Way, Classical Music

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Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.

Sammy Hagar

Artist, Opposites, Said

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I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.

Sammy Hagar

Careers, Fans, Sides

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I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.

Sebastian Bach

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