I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe…

I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also…

— Ringo Starr

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.

— Thundercat

I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and…

— Hulk Hogan

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own…

— Roger Bart

I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo,…

— T-Bone Walker

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

— Ace Frehley

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his…

— John Entwistle

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

— Colin Hanks

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

— Malcolm-Jamal Warner

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on…

— Suzi Quatro

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a…

— Quincy Jones

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

— Anonymous

People think because I'm crazy, I don't know anything. My dad played bass with Hector Lavoe, with Marc Anthony, with Ricky Martin, with people…

— Anuel AA

I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.

— Daniel Radcliffe

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

— Waylon Jennings