Solo Quotes
On your own, and finding your own sound.
These quotes follow musicians striking out on their own solo projects and performers reflecting on beloved solo characters from film. For more on creative independence, see Artist quotes.
One of the reasons why I started creating my solo show is so that I have a place to put all of the accents that I do.
I went to UCLA and studied studio art. I thought I was going to be a gallery painter, photographer, or ceramicist. Then, when I graduated, that didn't happen immediately. I didn't suddenly get solo shows in Chelsea, and I realized...
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I didn't intend to make one solo record, much less two. It's really a matter of seeing how it goes.
There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.
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.
I've always wanted to do a solo record, and in 1999, I went over to Japan and did a project called NiNa, where I co-wrote with Yuki from Judy and Mary. It just sort of unleashed this realization in me...
I've always wanted to do a solo project. I've always known I wanted to be a musician.
I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.
The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.
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.
You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on...
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could.
I often think about starting a band again, doing my solo stuff and a band. I grew up in bands.
I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
When I was a kid, I used to pretend I was Han Solo all the time. Running around with my fingers pretending they were a blaster.
Honestly, going solo is the second best thing that's ever happened to me after my kids.
