Lauryn Hill
Singer, Songwriter
"I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo."
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Keith Moon
Musician, Drummer
"I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music."
Brian May
Musician, Astrophysicist
"There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat."
Charlie Watts
Drummer
"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."
Ian Brown
Musician
"I've parked my solo thing in a lay-by and jumped in another vehicle and I'm in that now."
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"It was never supposed to be a hit. It was supposed to be a Joe Morello drum solo."
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"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."
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"By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band"
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"I'm not going to do any more solo touring."
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"You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo."
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"With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo."
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"I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist."
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"I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself."
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"I've been solo since 1996, so I've been doing it for a while now."
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"I've never had any big ideas about being the solo."
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"It's a huge responsibility being a solo act."
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"I could never be a professional comedian, 'cause you have to keep telling the same jokes. For me, they're like word solos."
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"Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally."
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"Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo."
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"You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo."
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