Bass Quotes

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

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.

Hi, my name is Jaime and I play bass, and I have dumb hair.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

I'm a big lover of fish. Cooking fish is so much more difficult than cooking protein meats, because there are no temperatures in the medium, rare, well done cooking a stunning sea bass or a scallop.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.

I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect.

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.

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

I ended up gettin a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.