Solos Quotes

#1. I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.

Kirk Hammett

#2. It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

Alvin Lee

#4. Once I started getting mainstream people to my shows, I realized we were taking too many solos, and they were too long. I started gauging when people were going on their iPhones.

Robert Glasper

#5. With Zeppelin, I tried to play something different every night in my solos. I'd play for 20 minutes but the longest ever was 30 minutes. It's a long time, but whenI was playing it seemed to fly by.

John Bonham

#6. I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

Noah Cicero

#7. I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.

Peter Capaldi

#8. On 'Metallica,' I recorded six or seven different guitar solos for almost every song, took the best aspects of each solo, mapped out a master solo and made a composite. Then I learned how to play the composite solo, tightened it up and replayed it for the final version.

Kirk Hammett

#9. Everybody free-solos. When you walk to the store, you're free-soloing. It's just a matter of the difficulty of the route.

John Bachar

#10. You can go crazy and play solos in the right place, and that's great because it can intensify and bring an emotional lift. But the thing is you don't want to get in the way of the song.

Benmont Tench

#11. I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos.

Robyn Hitchcock

#12. It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.

Kirk Hammett

#13. Even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band ...

Vince Gill

#14. I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

Richie Sambora

#15. Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

David Pajo

#16. When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.

Eddie Vedder

#17. At the bottom of the stairs, I caught sight of a tall Sentinel with brown hair pulled into a low ponytail. Solos. As far as I recalled, I hadn't threatened him with bodily harm - at least not to his face.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#18. All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

Ian Anderson

#19. In rock & roll heaven, there ARE drum solos, but only the drummers can hear them.

Lin Brehmer

#20. A lot of solos I hear sound so incredible, but they sound like somebody practicing. They sound a bit soulless - fiery, but at the same time, lacking in spirit and soul.

Jeff Beck

#21. Sometimes when I do an overdub solo, they'll keep four or five of my attempts and then mix the bits that they like to make a solo up out of them. It's not against the rules, really - I can learn my own solos, then. But that's the whole beauty of multi-track recording, isn't it?

Jeff Beck

#22. I don't like piano solos.

Warren Zevon

#23. Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Lee Konitz

#24. Every time I listen back to solos of mine I'll hear something I like and then another phrase that I can't stand. You have to live with what you play. And the recording medium puts that on us. When I play live gigs I don't think so much like that.

John Abercrombie

#25. Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.

Aynsley Dunbar

#26. I wasn't born an early bird.
It took three different alarms clocks blasting in my ear every morning to wake me up. And on special occasions when I'd sleep through the bird caws, beeping, and extreme drum solos, Stella would have the privilege of yanking me from my bed.

Joddie Zeng

#27. Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

Dan Auerbach

#28. With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.

Alex Lifeson

#29. It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge."

Wynton Marsalis

#30. Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he swung his tail off, he was a heck of an arranger and could out-read anybody ...

Larry Coryell

#31. I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.

Brian Setzer

#32. Practice? I never practice. I just write songs and take solos.

Tom Verlaine

#33. Blues teaches you to develop coherent solos, because the form you're playing over is so basic. You have to develop leads that go someplace.

Tommy Bolin

#34. Learn to play the piano, man, and then you can figure out crazy solos of your own.

Dizzy Gillespie

#35. I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.

Dan Hicks

#36. Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care *most* about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.

Joe Satriani

#37. I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.

Adam Jones

#38. I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

John Frusciante

#39. I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.

Freddie Hubbard

#40. I don't like drum solos, to be honest with you, but if anybody ever told me he didn't like Buddy Rich I'd right away say go and see him, at least the once.

Charlie Watts

#41. I learned a lot about lead; you don't have to blow your cookies in the first bar. It is much harder to be simple that to be complicated during solos.

Tommy Bolin

#42. Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

Josh Homme

#43. Steve Van Zandt, the poor guy, doesn't get to play enough as it is with me hogging a lot of the solos. Steve has always been a fabulous guitarist. Back from the day when we were both teenagers together, he led his band and played lead and was always a hot guitar player.

Bruce Springsteen

#44. It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing over the top. And as an instrument for solos, you can bend notes, draw emotional content out of tiny movements, vibratos and tonal things which even a piano can't do.

David Gilmour

#45. We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

Tina Weymouth

#46. I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it.

Ken Burns

#47. It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is not a crowd. Each member of the trio gets important solos, but there is also a real ensemble character.

Richard Dyer

#48. From now on all of my guitar solos will be in morse code.

Jason Hicks

#49. Church was the thing for me. The fellowship and the message that was given and singing in the choir and singing the solos and really listening to the words that you were singing and seeing how it affected people was huge for me.

DeLisha Milton-Jones

#50. The jam stuff doesn't appeal to me in general. My newfound love for the Dead came from Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's songwriting, not the elaborate guitar solos. I'm a song person. Once it starts to break out of that structure and become loopy, it's uninteresting to me.

Colin Meloy

#51. In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.

Lucas Grabeel

#52. I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.

Neil Peart

#53. In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

Chris Daughtry

#54. I got home, picked up my ax, turned on the four-track and just played it ... I played three solos back to back on Cemetery Gates ... the next morning, the second and third solos weren't bad, but the first had that first take magic ! .. I didn't touch it ...

Dimebag Darrell

#55. I would just like to say that Ritchie Blackmore did a bunch of great stuff guitar - wise. I'm happy to play the solo from 'Highway Star'. I always thought it was one of the most exciting guitar solos I'd ever played ...

Steve Morse

#56. I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.

Ace Frehley

#57. I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.

Taylor Hawkins

#58. Affectors Harmagedon is a solid blast of PROG metal complete with burning solos, odd time signatures, orchestral highlights, and Rock riffs that will tear your head off! Excited that I could be a part of this album!

Jordan Rudess

#59. I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos.

Darynda Jones

#60. Sound is what drives my solos, not verbal concepts, I never think 'I'm going to use a Lydian Dominant scale and then go up a half-step', even though that might be exactly what I end up doing ...

John Scofield

#61. These aren't two solos, this is a duet that isn't taking itself at all seriously.

David Levithan

#62. I can't play long solos anymore without boring myself.

Eric Clapton

#63. I'd rather have sung one of Elektra's solos. I can relate to her anger." "You

Anna Adams

#64. Corina Bartra is a very intriguing singer. On Son Zumbon ... the music utilizes tricky rhythms, the leader's haunting voice, and plenty of short solos. There is no lack on intensity in this program.

Scott Yanow

#65. James Michael and I played everything on the album, then brought in the guys in my band to add their spirit to it with solos and specific parts.

Deana Carter

#66. He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.

Jamie Muir

#67. Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.

Alex Honnold

#68. 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

#69. Dave Matthews is mixing violin solos with saxophone solos and it's bad for the baby

Rob Sheffield

#70. Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them

Richie Sambora

#71. rockabilly, solos, which used very few notes, mainly double stops (that is two notes at once) and were primarily

Damien Peters

#72. Our little solos are a note in an immense chorus vibrating grandly through the universe, a chorus which accepts and harmonizes the whir of the cricket and the long drum-roll of the stars.

Harriet Monroe

#73. I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.

Joey Santiago

#74. World Play is very '70s arena rock, very raw and in your face, and that's what we wanted. We recorded it in a very off-the-cuff manner and didn't really plan out how we were going to play. My solos are first takes.

Neal Schon

#75. I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.

Todd Rundgren

#76. Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.

Sara Genn

#77. I'm sure if Shakespear were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube" -Peter Capaldi.

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#78. It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.

Michael Schenker

#79. It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'

Richard D. James

#80. It wasn't a class system where I was the better guy and he was the second-rate guy. That was his role and my role was to play the solos. But he took great pride in his technique as a rhythm guitarist.

Wayne Kramer

#81. I love classical music; I love the way it's worked ... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.

Jon Lord

#82. That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

Charlie Hunter

#83. And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

Dave Navarro

#84. A long marriage is two people trying to dance a duet and two solos at the same time.

Anne Taylor Fleming

#85. I love my climbing shoes. Virtually all of my big solos have been in the TC Pros. They are the most important thing when I'm soloing.

Alex Honnold

#86. What is it with the St. Delphi brothers and their attraction to halfs?

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#87. Aiden has gone Rambo on us.

Jennifer L. Armentrout