Solo Quotes
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Much of the music is a Merzbild , put together from whatever came to hand. I mean, for example...the Alberti-bass horn solo accompanying the Messenger. I also mean the fusion of such widely divergent types of music as the Folies Bergeres tune at No. 40 ('The girls enter, kicking') and the Wagnerian 7th-chords at Nos. 58 and 74."
igor stravinsky— p. 27: Dialogues,
Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.
abby sunderland— p. 143 (Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (Thomas Nelson))
...in the Kathak format, which have for long been forgotten by solo dancers. In their impulse to gain instant popularity they have concentrated only on what brings an instant response from the audiences. To this day I have not had to look outside the Kathak technique for movements and forms.
— Kumudini Lakhia in "Choreography In The Indian Context".
Kuchipudi originated as a group performance. So when the solo form emerged, the pressure on the dancer was more as the dancer had to delineate different characters and varied moods.
— In "Journey in dance". 23 May 2013. Retrieved on 15 january 2014.
Samjukta Panigrahi along with her guru Kelucharan Mahapatra, is credited with reviving the all but extinct Odissi dance, an ancient Indian performance form from Orissa state. Odissi is solo form that combines music, song and a style of dance that includes a rich choreography with mudra hand gestures similar to those in other Indian genres such as Kathakali and pantomimic movement to convey complex narratives of love, personnel sacrifice and humankind’s relations to the gods.
— In Ian Watson (11 October 2002). Negotiating Cultures: Eugenio Barba and the Intercultural Debate. Manchester University Press. pp. 67–. ISBN 978-0-7190-6170-7.
Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou.
— 1907 Songs of a Sourdough,'The Shooting of Dan McGrew'.
Bass solo, take one.
cliff burton— Says this in the song "(Anesthesia)- Pulling Teeth".
Se l'arte dell'eloquenza è l'arte di persuadere, non vi è altra eloquenza che quella di dire sempre il vero, il solo vero, il nudo vero. Le parole, onde è necessità di nostra inferma natura di rivestire il pensiero, saranno tanto più potenti, quanto più atte al fine, cioè più nudo lasceranno il vero, che è nel pensiero.
vincenzo cuoco— Translation: If the art of eloquence is the art of persuading, there is no other eloquence but that of saying the truth, only the truth, the naked truth. Words, since it is a necessity of our infirm nature to clothe thought, will be the more powerful the more they are suited to their aim, that is the more naked they will leave the truth, which resides in thought.
— Platone in Italia
Interea non cessant uncinata nudorum tela, quibus miserrimi cives de muris tracti solo allidebantur.
gildas— Translation: Meanwhile the hooked weapons of their enemies were not idle, and our wretched countrymen were dragged from the wall and dashed against the ground.
— Section 19
— Gildas here describes post-Roman Britons on Hadrian's Wall defending it against the Scots and Picts below. This bizarre image, familiar to students of British history for generations, is belied by a more recent translation which runs, "Meanwhile there was no respite from the barbed spears flung by their naked opponents, which tore our wretched countrymen from the walls and dashed them to the ground." (Michael Winterbottom (trans.) Gildas: The Ruin of Britain and Other Works (1978) p. 23).
Anchoring four hours a day, solo, you have to know your stuff. But I do. I'm a real geek.
nicole lapin— Interview with Wired Magazine. [2] (26 June 2007)
Trattar le cose con molti, risolverle con pochi, o da se solo.
raimondo montecuccoli— P. 83.
— Translation: Discuss your plans with many, decide on them with few, or by yourself.
— Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 428.
In 1995, when I was backpacking through Europe solo, I would head to the train station, look up at the big board, and decide right there and then where I would go that day.
joseph pisani— Television Interview, Aeschbacher April 4, 2008, Swiss Television SF1
Questa azienda ha una maledizione e solo un esorcista puo' salvarla.
— Translation: This airline is cursed and only an exorcist can save it.
— Corriere della sera (3 April 2008)
If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book ... that's no fun at all.
joe satriani— As quoted in Guitar Player (November 1989)
Las artes (pintura, poesía, etc.) no son solo éstas. Artes son también comer, beber, caminar: todo acto es un arte.
césar vallejo— The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.p. 60
Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit.
virgil— She (Fame) walks on the earth, and her head is concealed in the clouds.
— Virgil, Æneid (29-19 BC), 4. 177.
The United States follows the pattern of men taking the financial risks even within a given field. Women physicians are three times as likely as men to work for the government or an HMO; men physicians are much more likely to be self-employed in a solo practice.
warren farrell— p. 108. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
La difficoltà di commettere suicidio sta in questo: è un atto di ambizione che si può commettere solo quando si sia superata ogni ambizione.
cesare pavese— Here's the difficulty about suicide: it is an act of ambition that can be committed only when one has passed beyond ambition.1938-01-16
De lo que mis Granaderos son capaces, solo lo sé yo, quien los iguale habrá, quien los exceda no.
josé de san martín— Of what my Granadiers are capable, only I know — who they equal will exist, who exceeds them won't.
I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.
abby sunderland— p. 27 (Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (Thomas Nelson))
Un'immoralità predicata è più punibile di un'azione immorale. Si arriva all'assassinio per amore o per odio; alla propaganda dell'assassinio solo per malvagità.
italo svevo— A preached immorality is more to be punished than an immoral action. You arrive at murder through love or through hate; you propogandize murder only through wickedness.P. 28; p. 34.
Bharat Natyam’s immediate predecessor was sadir, primarily a solo dance form practiced by devadasis, courtesans affiliated to temples and courts as performers and ritual officiants.
— By Janet O'Shea in "At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage", p.4
Questa azienda ha una maledizione e solo un esorcista puo' salvarla.
— Translation: This airline is cursed and only an exorcist can save it.
— Corriere della sera (3 April 2008)
A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.
— Deborah L. Rhode, In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession, Oxford US [ ]
Interea non cessant uncinata nudorum tela, quibus miserrimi cives de muris tracti solo allidebantur.
— Translation: Meanwhile the hooked weapons of their enemies were not idle, and our wretched countrymen were dragged from the wall and dashed against the ground.
— Section 19
— Gildas here describes post-Roman Britons on Hadrian's Wall defending it against the Scots and Picts below. This bizarre image, familiar to students of British history for generations, is belied by a more recent translation which runs, "Meanwhile there was no respite from the barbed spears flung by their naked opponents, which tore our wretched countrymen from the walls and dashed them to the ground." (Michael Winterbottom (trans.) Gildas: The Ruin of Britain and Other Works (1978) p. 23).
Fama, malum qua non aliud velocius ullum; Mobilitate viget, virisque adquirit eundo; Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubila condit.
— Fame, the great ill, from small beginnings grows:Who can deceive a lover?
Swift from the first; and ev'ry moment brings
New vigor to her flights, new pinions to her wings.
Soon grows the pigmy to gigantic size;
Her feet on earth, her forehead in the skies.
— Lines 174–177 (translated by John Dryden).
"Or se' tu quel Virgilio e quella fonte che spandi di parlar sì largo fiume?", rispuos' io lui con vergognosa fronte. "O de li altri poeti onore e lume, vagliami 'l lungo studio e 'l grande amore che m'ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume. Tu se' lo mio maestro e 'l mio autore, tu se' solo colui da cu' io tolsi lo bello stilo che m'ha fatto onore."
dante alighieri— "Now, art thou that Virgilius and that fountain
Which spreads abroad so wide a river of speech?"
I made response to him with bashful forehead.
"O, of the other poets honour and light,
Avail me the long study and great love
That have impelled me to explore thy volume!
Thou art my master, and my author thou,
Thou art alone the one from whom I took
The beautiful style that has done honour to me."
— Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno, Canto I, lines 79–87 (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow).
Un genio es alguien que descubre que la piedra que cae y la luna que no cae representan un solo y mismo fenómeno.
— Ernesto Sábato, in reference to Isaac Newton, in Sobre héroes y tumbas (1986), Ch. X
solo quiero Leones en mi regimiento.
josé de san martín— I only want Lions in my regiment.As quoted in San Martín, The Liberator (1971) by J. C. J. Metford, p. 33
