Quotes About Soloists

#1. Actors want to work with you but they want you to do their thing. Actors, whom I love with a blind partiality, sometimes they want to be soloists in the symphony, not a part of the orchestra.

James Gray

#2. We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

John C. Maxwell

#3. Most of the soloists at Birdland had to wait for Parker's next record in order to find out what to play next. What will they do now?

Charles Mingus

#4. Beethoven, Schubert, Schoenberg, Berg imply a type of pianist who is intellectual. That's not always associated with female soloists.

Jeffrey Tate

#5. There's only one cook in the kitchen, only one chef. I let the soloists do their thing - you've gotta let a man do a solo the way he wants - but as far as picking the tunes and working on the arrangements, I take full responsibility for it.

Gregg Allman

#6. The ensemble playing is as clean as a whistle. The band plays in tune and with dynamics. Also, there is some fine arranging and orchestrating going on here, and the soloists perform at top level.

Horace Silver

#7. I think you can tell a lot from the lives of many of today's great soloists. Their participation and gravitation towards chamber music is ever increasing.

David Finckel

#8. I don't kill soloists only kill squads

Nas

#9. With a group of people, it's easer to say, I want this, this and this. It's different with the soloists, because they are the ones who will be in the spotlight. You can't force an interpretation on them. With soloists, it's all about diplomacy.

Laurence Equilbey

#10. Concerto soloists need applause. Though virtue is said to be its own reward, no one ever said that about virtuosity.

Joseph Kerman

#11. A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

Dean Karnazes

#12. There is nothing more seductive - and dangerous - than being listened to.

Donald Antrim

#13. On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one's body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.

Jim Carroll

#14. I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

Ja Rule

#15. Education can change the scope of an entire family

Nitin Nohria

#16. Add your light to the sum of light.

Leo Tolstoy

#17. I hope to leave behind a few poems it will be hard to get rid of.

Robert Frost

#18. The part when they are together for a while, the two of them, before things go wrong. The way things ended always obliterated the genuine happiness that had come before and that shouldn't be the case.

Ann Patchett