With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo.
Fewer people have successfully solo-circumnavigated the globe than have journeyed into space.
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.
I feel like the songs that I write are best when they are performed by an ensemble, rather than by one solo instrument.
I think especially since going solo it's pretty clear that I'm completely being myself.
I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.
You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.
You are a dear soul who plays polo, and I am a poor Pole who plays solo.
I’m always the same. Whether I’m solo or with Big Bang, the one thing I have to do is sing and dance. I started solo activities with the things I did well with Big Bang, and I’ll show the things I learned while doing solo through Big Bang. Wherever I go and whatever I do, I am Taeyang and Dong Young Bae.
Strategy is not a solo sport, even if you're the CEO.
Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.
Regardless of any feedback. I love being a solo artist and having creative control. But it can be very nourishing and informative and flex very different creative muscles to work for someone else. You are essentially employed by the director. I love the challenge of that.
I definitely have to give myself permission, like on "Master Swarm," to rip a lead on that. Just play a violin solo that's - it's a bit showoff-y, but it's fun, so who cares?
I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.
I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.
It's true that bluegrass is a virtuosic form and asks that of its performer. Old-time music is older rawer and purer. It's less stylized. We don't solo. Well sometimes we do, but it's different it has more to do with rock-and-roll than bluegrass does.
With my solo music, often it's just about looking for interesting sounds that may or may not resonate emotionally.
I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60′s or 70′s recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.
Woo means the ability to entice someone or something to get what you want. My first solo album was called: All the Woo of the Universe, which was titled by George Clinton.