Bass Quotes

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

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

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

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

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.

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

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.

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

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

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.

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

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.

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 play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

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

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

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.

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 ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

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.

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 always got great respect as a bass player.

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

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

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.