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.
I've never had any big ideas about being the solo.
I've been friends with madonna for ever. In fact she was at my 3rd solo performance in 1990, and there were only 10 people in the audience.
Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.
Know that I'm better solo. I invented solo.
I went solo because I could do much better what I wanted to do. I didn't have to ask or discuss things and ideas that are already shaped in my head.
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
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.
You have to remember now, I was not being terribly successful at going solo.
For me I'm actually doing what I normally do when I do my solo thing and the other thing is actually more new to me.
People sort of know me for that solo piano music I did.
I've always toured solo acoustic.
The solo is a nuanced distillation of sorrow.
I've never really been interested in doing a solo piano tour.
Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based.
And I've always loved playing solo.
A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity.
Learning isn't something you should only do solo.
I think playing solo is a second rate activity, really. For me, playing is about playing with other people.
Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.
It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
You can never get a woman to sit down and listen to a drum solo.
I still play solo shows. And some of those shows are still some of the best, most gratifying shows.
I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.
