Instrumental Solo Quotes

I am a saxophone player.

Charlie Christian played amplified guitar with Benny Goodman's quartet. He was the greatest guitar player that ever was. But he never looked up from the guitar. But I put a little dance to it. They appreciate seein' something along with hearin' something.

At the end of '69 I did a gig with Jean Luc Ponty here in L.A. He was an electric violinist.

I remember a song I did called 'If the Good Die Young' - I wanted to have a lead guitar solo on there, and the label flipped out! It was too rock and roll. They made us go back and put fiddle on the solo.

If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

George Benson's 'This Masquerade' is my favorite version of Leon Russell's blue gem.

Taking a solo on a tune is always a little bit scary.

I've always enjoyed playing. If all it meant were to just stand there and play my axe and sing, I could have gone on forever.

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

The opening solo on 'Once in Royal David's City' is still the most dramatic radio moment of the year.

I played saxophone for 15 years. I played out. It never reached any kind of a level that was recording or anything.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.

I've always done a bass and drum solo that lasts about 10 minutes. The main thing is to use it only when you need to.

I played a gig at the Montreax Jazz Festival once - and on a song called 'It's All Gone,' I had to do free-form slide solo. It's the best thing I've ever done - because I wasn't thinking about it.

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

Most of the time, I'll be conducting the orchestra, but there will be some pieces that I'll be playing an instrument as well, just because I love playing. There's pieces where I want to grab an instrument and play with the rest of the group, like 'The Light of the Seven,' for example; I would love to play the piano for that.

Every show with my Jazzmaster is like a new show.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

I am a trombone player, and that was my first instrument.

I was a born rock n' roll sax player.

For me, if we're going to have a guitar solo, it needs to be over the top.

I feel I'm most successful when I'm playing a concert, and it doesn't necessarily seem like I'm playing a saxophone but am coming off more like an orchestra or something like that.

I always felt like the trumpet or trombone player was always the coolest dude in the room.

It is an attention-getter. I mean, it's hard to ignore a woman lugging a cello around.