Bass Quotes

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

It's not art, it's science.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

I need one more bass less.

More basses, because you are so far away.

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

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.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

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

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar

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

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.

I'm the quiet bass player.

I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.

I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.