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I don't like piano solos.
I love all my guitar solos.
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.
I've never been a huge fan of drum solos.
I can't see us getting into, like, long solos.
I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.
Your solos should be as interesting as any other part of the song.
I don't dictate the solos and I don't dictate the vocal harmonies.
There should always be some sort of conclusion or climax to your solos.
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
With solos, I don't like to be too prepared going in - I like to surprise myself.
I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
I used my Schecter for all my rhythms and most of my solos, certainly the fast solos.
It would be a dream come true if I could just go from studio to studio and play solos.
My favorite solos are all very melodic. Those are the ones that are the most memorable.
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
We think the juxtaposition between banjo solos and songs about the future are really funny.
I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.
We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool.
I don't even like doing drum solos live; to me, it's like, 'Ehhh.' It doesn't really interest me.
The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.
He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.
Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.
All of my solos were improvised initially - I would go in and get my bearings and see what I came up with.
I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.
I've always done very 'composed' music and worked-out solos. But sometimes it's fun not knowing where you're going.
I often use triadic arpeggio forms within my riffs and solos as a tool to create rich-sounding, poly-chordal sounds.
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 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.
I love extended solos. I used to like them in the old days a lot, because it used to give me time to go to the pub for a drink.
I love classical music; I love the way it's worked... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos.
We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos are nothing to do with it.
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.
Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink.
I was learning guitar as the band was beginning, at least in terms of being a lead guitar player. I could write songs, but I couldn't really play solos.
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.
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
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.
In high school, I was Mr. Choir Boy. I had solos, I was helping out the tenors with their parts and our choir teacher would ask me what songs we should do.
Hip-hop and jazz have always been intertwined. Even the G-funk thing. You listen to 'The Chronic,' there's flute solos and everything. It's always been there.
What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.
When I was 13, I got my first guitar, and I could sort of play Ted Nugent songs, but I couldn't play the solos. But I could play along with entire Ramones songs.
It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.
I'm kind of a terrible musician. I'm a very functional musician. I play just about every instrument in a band setting, functionally. But I should not be taking solos.
All of my solos are blues based. Even though a lot of my songs get into pop, I wind up going back to the blues. Trying to escape it is like trying to run from the devil.
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.