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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler

Life, Learning, Playing

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.
Buddy Rich

Music, Today, Mind

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.
Sammy Hagar

Trying, Write, Guys

I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album.
Lil Wayne

School, After, Album

Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.
Paul Taylor

Career, Goal, Keep

Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
Annie Lennox

Time, Person, Find

On the day I started college in 1979, no woman had ever been on the United States Supreme Court or served as the Speaker of the House. None had been an astronaut or the solo anchor of a network evening news broadcast. Not one had been president of an Ivy League college or run a serious campaign for president.
Dee Dee Myers

Woman, Evening, Serious

In college I had a weekend gig at a restaurant, a solo thing that was the best practice I could have ever had. That's where I learned to coordinate my singing and my piano playing.
Norah Jones

Best, Learned, College

I had a number of very strong personalities in my family. My father was a concert flutist, the solo flute for Toscanini.
Francis Ford Coppola

Family, Strong, Father

I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
Sammy Hagar

Bad, Greatest, Started

The solo years have been more meaningful to the audiences than the Smiths years, but the press in England only write about me in relation to the Smiths era.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Write, Meaningful, Press

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

While, Band, Full

I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now.
Sebastian Bach

The way I look at a solo project is, I create what I want with whoever I want.
Sebastian Bach

Create, Project, Whoever

I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.
Dave Mustaine

Stupid, Play, Guitar

I never imagined I'd be a solo artist. And now I couldn't imagine being part of a group.
Steven Patrick Morrissey

Group, Artist, Imagine

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

Music, Same, Old

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.
John Frusciante

Music, Happy, Small

I wanted to put out a solo record because I was stuck on a major label and sick of it.
Shirley Manson

Sick, Put, Wanted

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.
Shirley Manson

Sad, Beautiful, Made

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

Betrayal, Made, Unhappy

With the '60s era and Motown, my grandparents actually introduced us to that when I was younger, so I grew up listening to the Jackson Five, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations, The Supremes and Diana Ross' solo stuff. I just loved it.
Jordin Sparks

Loved, Actually, Stuff

My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.
John Zorn

Music, Together, Improvise

I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.
Graham Nash

Nice, Control, Sometimes

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

Greatest, Career, Again

Everything that Eddie has said about me is the total opposite of what really happened. Eddie says I wanted to be a solo artist. No, Eddie wanted to be a solo artist.
Sammy Hagar

Everything, Said, Wanted

I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with me and came right on out the other side with me.
Sammy Hagar

Career, Through, Before

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
Bjork

Done, Three, Quite

I cannot exist as a solo artist.
Courtney Love

Cannot, Artist, Exist

I don't wanna get into that space where a lot of guys now, their solo album is like eight or 10 songs with other people, you don't get an idea of who this guy is. I just wasn't interested in that.
Mos Def

Idea, Guy, Space

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