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Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.
There was no such thing as a solo career in East Germany. You had to get the best orchestra job that you could.
Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.
You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.
With the solo stuff, it's like starting over from scratch. It's rolling up your sleeves and getting down to work.
When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.
Usually when you put five girls together, especially when they've been solo artists, it doesn't turn out very well.
I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.
I have done a few solo projects that I really enjoyed and would love to have time to do more. Key word here is time!
I have many friends who had kids solo, who adopted, who used surrogates - no one was judging them - it's a new world!
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 didn't have the confidence to leave the band because of a solo career, or anything like that. I just wanted to grow.
As you know, I was a solo singer, something I just got very much used to. Turns out I'm quite enjoying being in a band!
I love Lauryn Hill when she first came out with her solo project because it felt like she just knew what she was doing.
As funny as it sounds, the best thing I got out of making a solo record was to realize how much I love being in a band.
I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
Nadine from Girls Aloud could definitely go solo - she's the one with the talent and will have a successful solo career.
Most solo artists go out on their own and put their name on the record. I prefer to create little alternative universes.
Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.
I'm on a mission to make people aware that I'm not a solo artist. I'm sometimes challenged by the branding of Tim Crouch.
I auditioned for 'Spider-Man.' I auditioned for 'Han Solo,' all those big movies. I would love to do something like that.
I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.
I knew I didn't want to make a country record just because that's not really what I would have ever made as a solo artist.
Music left my life for a while, to be honest. It wasn't that I didn't like it, but you know, I'm not really a solo player.
I always wanted Han Solo's confidence and swagger. My personality is way more C-3PO, but Han was always who I wanted to be.
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
I enjoy singing but I lack the proper training to make it as a solo artist. Instead, I feel I've found my niche with acting.
We always talked [with Andrew Ridgeley] about when it would happen - we always knew that I would go on to have a solo career.
A great guitar solo is really a song within a song. You can always go off and do your pageantry, but it has to be structured.
You can remember almost every Elmore James solo by heart because he was playing songs. Nothing's wasted. Nothing's throwaway.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
You know how the Beatles broke off - they all did their solo projects and they came back together and they were even stronger!
With writing, I prefer the solo effort, but when a team is working right, as it did on 'The Grifters,' boy, it's exhilarating.
I like to keep fit, and when not gardening or singing solo or in a choir, I cycle, play tennis, swim, dance, and practise yoga.
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.
When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere
I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.
I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.
Antonio Sanchez is from Mexico City. I met him at a Pat Metheny concert. He did a solo, and I thought, 'This is an octopus man!'
Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup, not out of a crystal stem.
I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.
I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.
Being a solo artist in general can be incredibly lonely. It's funny how often the bigger you get sometimes, the lonelier you feel.
I've never really had the desire to be a front person or a solo artist. I don't really create that much of a hierarchy in my mind.
When I was a kid on the playground, fights were about who got to play Han Solo. He's just one of the best characters ever created.
The goal is not to solo. Of course, it is possible to move fast in alpine style also with a partner. I just need the right partner.
Sean was a lot shyer lyrically in his solo career. I think because his father was such a great lyricist it was hard to tackle that.
'Fragile,' of course, was a very successful album for us, especially here in the States. It had a lot of solo pieces on it, though.
The solo break or the small break, it's... one of the most glorious ways to win a bike race. It's pretty damn impressive in my mind.
I always wanted to solo at the church and they didn't ever give it to me. But eventually they did and I froze. But then I killed it.