Bass Quotes

Bass Quote of the day

In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!

There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Women and rhythm-section first!?

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

Bass is for people who can't play guitar

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.

I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.