Solo Quotes - Page 6

I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.

Elvin Jones

Music, Color, Mind

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... Aqualung was a difficult and very tense album to record... while I was playing the solo, Jimmy Page walked into the control room and started waving, I thought, should I wave back and mess up the solo or should I just grin and carry on ? ... I just grinned

Martin Barre

Music, Pages, Rooms

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I find that in California I can't find guys that have enough energy. They play a little bit and that's about it. They play less. If I start a tune and then the pianist has to solo, I am looking to everybody to get to a certain climate and then I come back in while the energy is up high. Somehow that doesn't happen.

Pharoah Sanders

Music, Play, California

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Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

Dizzy Gillespie

Crazy, Men, Play

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I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.

Derek Bailey

Thinking, People, Rate

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I think the solo playing, the decision to start playing solo, came out of having discovered what lay behind the doors that that technique opened for me.

Evan Parker

Thinking, Doors, Decision

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In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

Evan Parker

Order, Long, Elements

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The other saxophones, except as solo instruments, really don't have much point in the orchestra

Gerry Mulligan

Orchestra, Saxophone, Mulligans

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Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!

Robert Plant

Albums, Would Be, Terrible

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As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

Tommy Shaw

Artist, Play, Band

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By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

Tommy Shaw

Albums, Band, Thirds

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You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski

Play, Soul, Poor

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There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.

Lara St. John

Play, Voice, Trying

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I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60′s or 70′s recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

Adrian Belew

Anniversary, Years, Dust

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With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.

Albert Einstein

Trumpets

Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.19, St. Martin's Press

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I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.

Natasha Hamilton

Wedding, Children, Careers

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What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

James Burton

Music, Song, Fall

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In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.

Derek Bailey

Thinking, Play, Absence

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Adam Berenson knows how to compose, organize an ensemble, do musical research, play solo and trio piano, write for musical journals, and enlist others to his cause. A very fine musician.

Paul Bley

Writing, Play, Piano

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I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

The Edge

Song, Heart, Needs

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I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

Noah Cicero

Feet, Guitar, Bird

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I dont separate my work with the band from this solo project-Im sure the group could have recorded any of these, and they would have if the Fleetwood Mac project had come up at this time. I dont have any finished songs lying around.

Christine McVie

Song, Lying, Groups

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My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.

Andrew O'Hagan

Loneliness, Home, Dark

"Party of one" by Andrew O'Hagan, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. May 09, 2013.

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In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

Lucas Grabeel

Song, Teacher, School

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There's always been a lot of misunderstanding about Lando's character. I used to pick up my daughter from elementary school and get into arguments with little children who would accuse me of betraying Han Solo.

Billy Dee Williams

Daughter, Children, School

Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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