Quotes About Going Solo

#1. When it comes to individual bloggers, they have many choices now that include blogging for a network or going solo.

Jason Calacanis

#2. I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself.

William Beckett

#3. By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.

Barry Gibb

#4. In the beginning, I was frightened to death of going solo. Especially when doing live shows, I was so used to my brothers being next to me. It felt like the crowd was just looking at me, waiting for me to either mess up or prove myself.

Charlie Wilson

#5. You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.

John Sebastian

#6. You will shape up and get better ... But you'll always have others to rely on as well. It's the fact that we're not each a detective going solo. We're together. The unique talents of our friends fill in where we lack. There's nothing wrong with that.

Zechariah Barrett

#7. I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

Ace Frehley

#8. There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn't going to hang my hat up on my musical career.

Glenn Tipton

#9. there are only so many times you can listen to the guitar solo in Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" without going a little numb yourself,

John Seabrook

#10. I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

John Frusciante

#11. I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.

Bruce Cockburn

#12. Drall's lighter gravity is going to Jacen's head. He's convinced that our coming here is going to upset the balance of the Force or something.
-Anakin Solo

James Luceno

#13. Junior told me once that he was very impressed by Jimi Hendrix, by the way he was very wild, and yet he was very controlled. He knew where everything was going in a solo, and he (Junior), I think tries for the same effect, and I think he hits it virtually every time.

Mitch Mitchell

#14. Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

Richard Lloyd

#15. You really have to stay true to yourself, as cheesy as that sounds. And you cannot take no for an answer, and you have to dream big. I think that's the greatest thing my family ever taught me: if you're going to dream, you have to dream so big.

Ksenia Solo

#16. You're always going to survive the pain of loss. I can live with that confidence inside of me.

Hope Solo

#17. Around New York, our group had become known as 'Dee Dee and her girls' because we were used on everything, so going out on a solo career wasn't as much a big deal to me.

Dee Dee Warwick

#18. Even when quitting seems like the best option, theres always a reason to keep going.

Hope Solo

#19. Nobody told Don Henley or me that we were going to make it as solo artists, but I can speak for Don when I say that we are both really happy now that the band is not together.

Glenn Frey

#20. There is a difference between finding trouble in your path and going out of your way searching for it.
-Jacen Solo

R.A. Salvatore

#21. 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

#22. You're not going to be liked by everybody when you speak the truth. I don't speak the truth to put people down; I don't speak the truth to show disrespect.

Hope Solo

#23. 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

#24. Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

Tommy Lee

#25. I'm not going to do any more solo touring.

Bruce Dickinson

#26. 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

#27. I am proud of who I am, and nobody's going to steal that.

Hope Solo

#28. 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

#29. Han Solo: Wonderful girl. Either I'm going to kill her or I'm beginning to like her.

George Lucas

#30. If I'm going to go out to be a solo artist, it's because I want to do something different without having to wait on someone else's schedule or hobbies or be limited by other people's prejudices. I'd be kind of stupid not to exercise that.

Chris Cornell

#31. Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.

Benny Green

#32. I was going to record a solo album when I was 15 on a four-track. I started working on it, but then Fall Out Boy happened. The band was awesome and took me in a totally different direction. I don't regret it at all, but the band delayed the record I had been planning.

Patrick Stump

#33. 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

#34. The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.' ... They come back, and other people come in.

Chris Squire

#35. Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

Abby Sunderland

#36. It's like, on my solo stuff, every single person who buys the record, gets it. On the other stuff, the masses ... when you have a hit on the radio, not everyone's going to get it. They are going to buy it for the hit.

Kip Winger

#37. You know journalists. You know the media. They are going to hang on to anything negative they possibly can.

Hope Solo

#38. I am going to be a professional soccer player.

Hope Solo

#39. Becoming a solo singer is like going from an eau de toilette to a perfume. It's much more intense.

Geri Halliwell

#40. I'm just going to embrace every experience.

Hope Solo

#41. If I want to dress up like Princess Leia and lightsaber fight the clone army in my living room, well the Han Solo in my life is just going to have to accept it.

Michelle M. Pillow

#42. My solos are more tastefully conceived now. But I still get going in places. It's just that I build up to it now. I don't race off on a solo. I take my time.

Alvin Lee