Top 144 Solos Quotes & Sayings

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

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

I love all my guitar solos.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.

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.

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

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

From a technical viewpoint, I have certain things I'd like to present in my solos. To do this, I have to get the right material. It has to swing, and it has to be varied.

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

In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.

I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.

'Even Flow' is the best to play live because of the long solos. It starts out slow and builds, and, depending on what the audience does, I can reflect that in the solo.

I don't really break into too many solos. But I've never been a super-big solo guy anyway. I like to make the main melody guitar lines of the songs as cool and interesting as possible without just strumming chords. I like to have chords intertwined with riffs here and there, but I'll do the riffs and the solos where the bottom will drop out. Basically, I do everything for the song, I don't do it for the solo glory. Kids aren't really into that anymore for some reason.

With my first high school band ever, we would have these breaks in the song for idiotic solos, solos that were un-tasteful and would be shredding, but I needed to put them in there, and I realize now it's because we were playing shows with a whole bunch of bands that were all male.

Listening to as many guitar solos as possible is the best method for someone in the early stages. But saxophone solos can be helpful. They're interesting because they are all single notes, and therefore can be repeated on the guitar. If you can copy a sax solo you're playing very well, because the average saxophonist can play much better than the average guitarist.

Every girl is a singer. I wanted to learn the solos and play lead guitar. I would meticulously teach myself solos so when dudes were like, 'Oh, you're a girl, you can't play guitar,' I could rip these insane Telecaster blues solos and tell them, 'Yeah, I can burn up a fret board.'

We think the juxtaposition between banjo solos and songs about the future are really funny.

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

I can't see us getting into, like, long solos.

A guitar solo in the same part of every tune - that's been done so much. I think solos shine more when you have them in specific and unexpected places.

I've never been a huge fan of drum solos.

Punk came along and grunge made guitar solos uncool.

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

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

Your solos should be as interesting as any other part of the song.

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

Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.

The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.

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.

All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.

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

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.

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

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.

Listen to the great guitarists of the Fifties. They didn't do that nasty sort of industrial distortion. They played musical compositions as solos - Scotty Moore, Cliff Gallup, Django Reinhardt. There wasn't a bad note in any of those solos. I listened to that and stayed with those rules.

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.

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

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

When I was growing up, my idea of Led Zeppelin was all epic lasers, castles, and ten-minute drum solos - that sort of thing.

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

I don't regard myself as a soloist. It's a color; I put it in for excitement. It's not great loss if a solo has to go. We've made songs without solos.

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

I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.

There should always be some sort of conclusion or climax to your solos.

I often use triadic arpeggio forms within my riffs and solos as a tool to create rich-sounding, poly-chordal sounds.

I used my Schecter for all my rhythms and most of my solos, certainly the fast solos.

I don't like piano solos.

If you're playing with a number of people, there are all sorts of textures, all kinds of possibilities you can get into. So why just play a theme together and then take solos?

My favorite solos are all very melodic. Those are the ones that are the most memorable.

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.