Solo quotes

Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Space #People #Solo

Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
-- Abby Sunderland

#Sailor #Solo #Dangerous

I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
-- Ace Frehley

#Guitar #Space #Solo

For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.
-- Alfred Schnittke

#Ideas #Needs #Solo

I like working solo and it was a lot of fun joking around with the audience, saying things. I'm only just learning how to do certain things.
-- Art Garfunkel

#Fun #Joking Around #Solo

Flourishing is not a solo endeavor.
-- Barbara Fredrickson

#Flourishing #Solo #Endeavor

By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
-- Barry Gibb

#Important #Solo #Fortune

I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.
-- Bradford Washburn

#Climbing #Lasts #Solo

I'm not going to do any more solo touring.
-- Bruce Dickinson

#Touring #Solo

I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.
-- Charlie Watts

#Honest #Rich #Solo

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.
-- Chris Daughtry

#Guitar #Solo #Guitar Solos

You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.
-- Clive James

#Women #Down And #Solo

It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
-- Dan Deacon

#Goal #Made #Solo

I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos.
-- Darynda Jones

#Guitar #Heavy Metal #Solo

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.
-- Dave Navarro

#Guitar #Important #Solo

Solo concerts are murder, I find; I don't like doing them.
-- Derek Bailey

#Murder #Solo #Concerts

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

#Thinking #People #Solo

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.
-- Frank Iero

#Desire #Want #Solo

Learning isn't something you should only do solo.
-- Geoff Mulgan

#Should #Solo

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

#Orchestra #Saxophone #Solo

And I've always loved playing solo.
-- Glen Hansard

#Solo

Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
-- Harry Shearer

#Ease #Venture #Solo

I can't tell you how much I respect all the single parents out there doing it all solo.
-- Jennie Finch

#Parent #Single Parent #Solo

The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.
-- Jennifer Dunning

#Sorrow #Solo

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

#Matter #Solo #Stores

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
-- John Bonham

#Sound #Likes #Solo

People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
-- John Cale

#Piano #People #Solo

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with
-- John Frusciante

#Solo #Wanted

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.
-- John Zorn

#Together #Solo #Improvisation

In their palate alone is their reason of existence. [Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
-- Juvenal

#Eating #Reason #Solo

I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.
-- Keith Moon

#Thinking #Beats #Solo

Me han dicho que eso de sentirse feliz sin felicidad solo funciona con cocaína. Por desgracia no es bueno para la salud. Además de muy caro. Hum, e ilegal, desde luego. Así que mejor sigo siendo desgraciada y espero a encontrar alguna razón para poder ser feliz.
-- Kerstin Gier

#Sin #Solo

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 #Solo #Rhyme

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

#Mean #Use #Solo

It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
-- Kirk Hammett

#Guitar #Fans #Solo

I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.
-- Klaus Schulze

#Ideas #Solo #Wanted

Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.
-- LeBron James

#Solo

Now because he saved the day they're making another solo Hulk movie after the second Avengers comes out,
-- Lou Ferrigno

#Solo

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

#Solo #Uncertainty

Out of the firefight, into the carbon freeze." -Anakin Solo
-- Michael A. Stackpole

#Solo #Carbon

I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.
-- Moby

#People #Facts #Solo

I've never done a solo tour. I feel like getting out there and doing that.
-- Neal Schon

#Done #Solo #Feels

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
-- Noel Redding

#Bass #Solo

It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo,
-- Paul Desmond

#Solo

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.
-- Peter Tork

#Gigs #Favourite #Solo

Solo homers usually come with no one on base.
-- Ralph Kiner

#Solo

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.
-- Ricky Skaggs

#Art #Shining #Solo

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.
-- Robbie Williams

#Responsibility #Solo

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

#Albums #Would Be #Solo

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.
-- Robin Gibb

#Focus #Solo #Right Time

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 #Solo

If I would have ever dreamed that I wouldn't be in Van Halen anymore and was going to have resume my solo career again, I would have never contributed anything towards my own greatest hits package.
-- Sammy Hagar

#Careers #Solo #Vans

Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
-- Sara Genn

#Shining #Solo #Values

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 #Solo

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

#Solo

My first solo was in church when I was five.
-- Suzy Bogguss

#Church #Firsts #Solo

Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.
-- Tim Gunn

#Collaboration #Life Is #Solo

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

#Band #Albums #Solo

I don't like piano solos.
-- Warren Zevon

#Piano #Solo

What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.
-- Gwenno

#Song #Moving #Solo

Playing solo is difficult because you have to keep the momentum yourself. You have to continue to create and develop, so it forces you to stretch in a variety of ways.
-- McCoy Tyner

#Way #Momentum #Solo

I was never the one that really wanted to be a solo artist, I was always in groups.
-- Tweet

#Artist #Groups #Solo

I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself.
-- William Beckett

#Thinking #Being Myself #Solo

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.
-- Alvin Lee

#Artist #Thinking #Solo

I'll never play a drum solo you can't dance to.
-- Gene Krupa

#Play #Solo

I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now.
-- Ian Brown

#Solo #Vehicle #Lays

Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.
-- Tommy Bolin

#Form #Solo #Teach

You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
-- John Sebastian

#Successful #Remember #Solo