Soloist Quotes

#1. We can't hear the balance yet because the soloist is still on the airplane.

Eugene Ormandy

#2. I was always the kid on scholarship, I was a soloist with my company, I'd been working with the symphony since I was 14.

Summer Glau

#3. Ori Kam is an outstanding violist who has already played as a soloist with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra twice, much to our delight and satisfaction, and has availed himself with distinction.

Zubin Mehta

#4. I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

Alex Lifeson

#5. In monasteries of old, the monk's dharma, his purpose in life, was said to be this: to support the choir. In Latin, propter chorum. Literally, his life was lived "in support of the choir." He was not a soloist. He was not a diva. He was part of a magnificent whole.

Stephen Cope

#6. If you're dreaming of being a great soloist, walking on stage, receiving ovations night after night, having money thrown at you, girls chasing after you and your beautiful picture - that's wonderful. But what exactly does that have to do with the practice of music ?

Wu Han

#7. I did once shatter a chandelier. I was singing with my college choir in Wales. I was the soloist and I hit the high note and there was this massive bang and all this glass came down from the ceiling. I'd like that to be my party trick if I can perfect it.

Katherine Jenkins

#8. When you have a sense of calling, whether it's to be a musician, soloist, artist, in one of the technical fields, or a plumber, there is something deep and enriching when you realize it isn't just a casual choice, it's a divine calling. It's not limited to vocational Christian service by any means.

Charles R. Swindoll

#9. Next year I'm going to be a guesting soloist with orchestras all over Europe, to start off with.

Keith Emerson

#10. I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.

John Williams

#11. Jazz brought this sense of democracy where four guys come together and your name may be on the marquee, but in this moment, when you're the soloist, it's you, and we follow you. We follow you.

Al Jarreau

#12. I'm more of a strumming guitarist, instead of a lead soloist guitarist.

Stark Sands

#13. I suppose being a bit of an antisocial weirdo definitely honed my skills as a soloist. It gave me a lot more opportunities to solo lots of easy routes, which in turn broadened my comfort zone quite a bit and has allowed me to climb the harder things without a rope that I've done now.

Alex Honnold

#14. The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

Joshua Bell

#15. Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

Ned Sublette

#16. You should be loud enough to be heard, but not overshadow the soloist or the other members of the rhythm section. Finding this volume balance is critical for a good feeling in the band. Creating bass lines

Sher Music

#17. I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.

Arthur Godfrey

#18. But even a wonderful soloist needs a song. Even a pitch-perfect voice needs a message.

David Pietrusza

#19. Over the years, I've seen how being a soloist and having a family can really work.

Joshua Bell

#20. Sometimes they'll have performances and invite me to be a featured soloist. I think that is what they call it in that world-"featured soloist."

Will Oldham

#21. Soloist are inspiring in Opera and perhaps even in small entreprenurial ventures, but there is no place for them in large corporations.

Norman Ralph Augustine

#22. I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

Jerry Cantrell

#23. I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

Cass McCombs

#24. Food and wine. Decide which is the soloist, which the accompanist.

Michael Broadbent

#25. If you only exercise your soloist muscles, the other muscles quickly atrophy.

Cate Blanchett

#26. I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.

Patricia McBride

#27. Pray silence for the soloist. But let him be soon over, that we may hear the great striding fugue again.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#28. I did a lot of choral music in high school, and that was kind of my primary, stable outlet for music because I didn't feel comfortable being a soloist. It was a cool, safe space for me musically.

Autre Ne Veut

#29. I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.

George Carlin

#30. I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

Valerie June

#31. In the orchestra of a great kitchen, the sauce chef is a soloist.

Fernand Point

#32. I can't survive,' he once told me of his refusal to come indoors,'if I can't hear the orchestra the way I like to hear it.

Steve Lopez