When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that… — Donald Dunn Copy Share Image
I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way,… — Nas Copy Share Image
I play guitar, bass, drums, piano, and pretty much any sort of stringed instrument - besides violin or cello. — Mark Foster Copy Share Image
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer,… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
El Perro del Mar sort of accompanied my time at 'SNL.' To concentrate and focus, I would play the bass to one… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm… — Nate Ruess Copy Share Image
There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of… — Rory Block Copy Share Image
If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long… — Herb Alpert Copy Share Image
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass… — Jimmy Webb Copy Share Image
I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to.… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was… — Ikue Mori Copy Share Image
Some of the best logos are the simplest. One of the oldest is the mark used by the Bass brewery: a red… — Tahl Raz Copy Share Image
I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn. — Robert Lowell Copy Share Image
'Hear My Heart' was constructed with the deaf in mind. I wanted a bass line that felt like a heartbeat. I wanted… — Andy Mineo Copy Share Image
Jack Bruce really showed me that you could go anywhere with a bass part, and as long as you stayed in time,… — Michael Anthony Copy Share Image
Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation. — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played… — Les Claypool Copy Share Image
My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That… — Dan Auerbach Copy Share Image
Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food. — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
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… — DJ Shadow Copy Share Image
You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass… — Keith Morris Copy Share Image
Bass players usually play overhand, with their fingers. That's a carry-over from upright bass playing. My style is different because I came… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him,… — Waylon Jennings Copy Share Image
Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
I've got an incredibly acute sense of smell, like a bloodhound. My wife borrows perfumes off me. I play the bass, too. — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You should be loud enough to be heard, but not overshadow the soloist or the other members of the rhythm section. Finding… — Sher Music Copy Share Image
I'm exactly where I want to be - we live out here on the James River outside Richmond. I have three ponds,… — Jimmy Dean Copy Share Image
If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your… — George Shearing Copy Share Image
The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the… — Luka Sulic Copy Share Image
I could be just as happy playing a Beatles song as I am when I'm thrashing out the double bass stuff with… — Mike Portnoy Copy Share Image
If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably… — Timothy B. Schmit Copy Share Image
There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think… — Graham Coxon Copy Share Image
