Top 100 Fly Solo Quotes
#1. The volume of twaddle from critics is directly proportional to the distance you keep from them. There is always room to spread your wings when you fly solo.
J.N. Race
#2. Have a defined mission with clear goals and timelines. I still trust the staff, with as little oversight as possible. Do things to show them that their time is as valuable to you as it is to them. Don't be afraid to 'fly solo.'
Pete Olson
#3. In the end, a lack of compatibility is what ruins relationships. You can't force someone to be an eagle when they are a duck. Nobody wants to fly solo. Dreams were meant to be shared together.
Shannon L. Alder
#5. When Marvel approached me about possibly bringing back a She-Hulk solo series, a few touchstones for a take immediately popped into my head - make her an attorney. Make her charming and fun, not weighed down by the various things life will throw at her. Give her a vibrant social life.
Charles Soule
#6. I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.
Tod Machover
#7. There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.
Brian May
#8. But you have so much in common. You're both from strange little backwater planets. You both have odd powers. You're male and she's female. What more do you need? Believe me, buddy, if I were you, I'd go right up there and ask her if she wants to ride on my rancor.
Dave Wolverton
#9. I don't know what I'll be in the future, Anakin, but I know you'll be a great Jedi Knight."
- Jacen Solo
Michael A. Stackpole
#10. Running is my solo time; working my muscles outside in fresh air is therapeutic.
Nina Dobrev
#11. I really wasn't planning on being a solo artist.
Juicy J
#12. I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.
Cory Monteith
#13. I've always toured solo acoustic.
Jewel
#14. 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
#15. For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.
Bret Michaels
#16. For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.
Julian Casablancas
#17. If drummers are 'anti-solo,' that's up to them. They're musicians, and they can play whatever they want. But my inspirations early on were people like Buddy Rich, seeing him on 'The Tonight Show', or Gene Krupa.
Neil Peart
#18. You can predict all you want, but everybody knows what predictions get you.
Hope Solo
#19. I think it's my personality to overcome things, learn from them and become stronger, both personally and professionally. To be honest, I welcome those hardships.
Hope Solo
#20. The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.
Sebastian Bach
#21. It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
Don Henley
#22. My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.
Slash
#23. I try to live my life one day at a time, and if I look too far in advance, I get really stressed.
Hope Solo
#24. You make one solo album, and some people swear you're about to leave the band or there are creative differences.
Martin Gore
#25. London 2012 is all about winning a medal. Not just any medal, the gold medal.
Hope Solo
#26. In the absence of that, I am happy to play solo, but I don't think there is any comparison.
Derek Bailey
#27. It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.
Hope Solo
#28. In their palate alone is their reason of existence.
[Lat., In solo vivendi causa palata est.]
Juvenal
#29. I still don't buy the idea that I'm a 'sex symbol.'
Hope Solo
#31. Han Solo would never wear the earring Harrison Ford wears.
Margaret Stohl
#32. Jaden: "Dude, you've found something wrong with every girl. I'm about to play this one solo if you can't make up your mind."
Bastian: "We're not trying to decide between a Big Mac or a chicken sandwich here. This is some serious shit. We want epicness, we have to be choosy.
Nyrae Dawn
#33. Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
Ian Anderson
#34. I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.
Hope Solo
#35. I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.
James Hetfield
#36. The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.
David Gilmour
#37. I love those Keith Richards solo records, but it's not the Rolling Stones.
Nikki Sixx
#38. I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.
Tommy Shaw
#39. 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.
Dave Pirner
#40. The trees were friendly, they gave me rest and shadowed refuge. Slipping through them, I felt safe and competent. My whole body was occupied. I had little energy to think or worry.
Aspen Matis
#41. It's funny because I'm so used to acting in English that any time I have these moments where I have to speak Russian, it definitely takes a different part of my brain to pull it off, but it's always nice and fun.
Ksenia Solo
#42. Where science is a dignified waltz in three-quarter time, magic is an improvised saxophone solo: all gut checks and synchronicities.
Michael G. Williams
#43. When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.
Paul Simon
#45. On a global stage, I have respect in the goalkeeping world.
Hope Solo
#46. When I'm sick of myself, and when I don't know what to say as a solo artist, I can write a song for a movie. When I don't know where to turn musically, being in a band - Rilo Kiley or Jenny & Johnny - the collaborative nature is really exciting.
Jenny Lewis
#47. I have a problem with players who don't take the loss personally. At a professional level you should - it's our job, it's our livelihood, it's who we are at this level. Every loss should be taken that personal.
Hope Solo
#48. Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
Max McKeown
#49. I have a very solo career. I only write with people that I really adore.
Jenny Eclair
#50. And if I'd be left alone in the woods again, I smiled to think how I'd find new gifts and thrive. At the end of a long trail and the beginning of the rest of my life, I was committed to always loving myself. I would put myself in that win-win situation.
Aspen Matis
#51. I was not ever hitchhiking alone. I've done solo train trips but I've never driven myself alone.
Anne Waldman
#52. I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful music. Playing some lovely organ, perhaps. I would have loved to record with John Lennon. He was a dear friend. I had lunch with him just two days before he died.
Rick Wakeman
#53. I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.
Thalia Zedek
#54. Athletes are extremists. When they're training, it's laser focus.
Hope Solo
#55. Life is a guy trying to play a violin solo in public, while learning the music and his instrument at the same time.
Joseph Campbell
#56. My first solo was in church when I was five.
Suzy Bogguss
#57. It was hard. I came to grips with a lot of difficulties that I've overcome. Each challenge kind of makes you who you are. It wasn't always a good thing. I have my own struggles in my life because of the things I was forced to overcome.
Hope Solo
#59. Black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening.
Jimmy Lyons
#60. I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
Shirley Manson
#61. Like solo sailors venturing into the Southern Ocean, climbers are seduced by risk. The desire to push to a summit or scale a rock face is so strong that they consciously or subconsciously minimize safety precautions drilled into their brains.
Charles Duhigg
#62. I've actually thought very little about solo work up until just very recently. Most of it is because in my band, Incubus, it is very much a collaborative effort. I do what I do in the band, and everyone plays their respective parts, but in the end, we are sort of a democratic process.
Brandon Boyd
#63. Each time I saw a cliff, I wondered whether I could free solo it. My life shaped itself around the understanding that falling means I die. To break the paradigm I had to empty out my essence, rummaging for fundamentals I thought were gone forever.
Dean Potter
#64. It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.
Eddie Van Halen
#65. Jacen Solo, your sojourn in the lands of the dead is at an end. It is time once again to walk the bright fields of day.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#66. Maybe someday we'll see each other again, Charlie. For real I mean. Until then, save me a seat, okay?
-Solo
Trish Doller
#67. The humans are dead (I'm glad they are dead)
The humans are dead (I noticed, they're dead)
We used poisonous gases (With traces of lead)
And we poisoned their asses (Actually, their lungs)
Binary solo!
0000001, 00000011
000000111, 00001111!
Flight Of The Conchords
#68. My solo novel 'Icons' was optioned by Alcon Entertainment, the folks who made the 'Beautiful Creatures' movie, and that's gotten as far as a script, but no news yet.
Margaret Stohl
#69. Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.
Richard Hawley
#70. Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.
Frank Ocean
#71. My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid.
Ksenia Solo
#72. I love pedicures. And, yes, I have a ton of shoes.
Hope Solo
#73. I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.
Nick Carter
#74. I mean, I really, really love playing solo. Definitely, it's like a labor of love, it's not a huge career. It's not that successful, but it's something I love so much that I'll do it regardless.
Amy Ray
#75. Everybody should be affected by their own realities in their own lives, their own struggles in their own lives. It makes us who we are, and we all know that.
Hope Solo
#76. Lauren Hill, I always have her solo CD nearby. I have Coldplay, Radiohead, just a mix.
Taryn Manning
#77. Probably, an increasingly desperate Bala-Tik thought as he let off yet another ineffectual blast, Solo had done it by talking all of them into a state of complete insensibility.
Alan Dean Foster
#78. I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
Sammy Hagar
#79. I love to play a character. If I'm playing Cinderella or Aurora in 'Sleeping Beauty' or something like that, then I enjoy classical a lot. But to do just a two-minute solo, purely to show classical aesthetic, is not my favorite thing to do.
Sarah Hay
#80. Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.
Alvin Lee
#81. I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.
Harry Styles
#82. I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.
Dalton Trumbo
#83. On those long notes behind the trumpet solo, if anyone lets his mind wander for a minute he is dead.
Don Ellis
#84. I think a guitar solo is how my emotion is most freely released, because verbal articulation isn't my strongest communication strength. My wife thinks that I should do interviews by listening to the questions and playing the answer on guitar.
David Gilmour
#85. You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey ... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music.
Obie Trice
#86. Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.
George Lucas
#87. I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.
Loren Mazzacane Connors
#88. Creative force, like a musical composer, goes on unweariedly repeating a simple air or theme, now high, now low, in solo, in chorus, ten thousand times reverberated, till it fills earth and heaven with the chant.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#89. I do some solo, acoustic stuff, but I also like plugging in my electric guitar and playing loud with a band.
James Bay
#90. 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!'
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#91. I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.
Hope Solo
#92. Life is a collaboration, it's not a solo act.
Tim Gunn
#93. Being responsible and taking care of your body is truly how you make your pay cheque, how you excel and succeed in your lifelong goals, so for me it's just an everyday lifestyle.
Hope Solo
#94. 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
#95. You called me on the phone, saying you were alone,
But that's a lie because I heard your moms breathing on the phone.
And if you really like me, let your moms know
She should mind her business ... before I let go.
K-Solo
#96. At a festival, a lot of people came to see other artists, so you have to put on a signature set and performance: 'This is what I do, this is why I'm here.' At solo gigs, I'm a DJ - I'll play two-and-a-half hours, and not just my own music, also my favorite songs by other artists.
Afrojack
#97. I figured she wanted to get into it with me, some he's-my-man-so-step-off song and dance. If so, she would have to dance solo.
I don't do drama.
Dia Reeves
#98. I think that this stage in my life is really, for a lot of reasons, pretty incredible. Being a solo artist and trying to take these bold steps on my own.
Nick Jonas
#99. Robin had always wanted to go solo, so when it happened I wasn't angry at all. I understood the situation. But Barry is so full of pride and couldn't understand why Robin had done it.
Maurice Gibb
#100. I wished that I could have been down there because Paul actually wanted me to do the tour with him, but then he realized that it just wouldn't be right. It wouldn't be a solo tour anymore. It would look like just half of KISS.
Eric Carr
