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… — Mike McCready Copy Share Image
Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole. — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image
I think the biggest problem with drum and bass is that people don't like to collaborate, and so from very early on… — DJ Rap Copy Share Image
I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being… — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
I don't focus on one thing. I play guitar and bass and keyboards and drums, but I never stay on anything long… — Lou Barlow Copy Share Image
Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar… — Johnny Cash Copy Share Image
The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player. — Mike Gordon 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
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other… — Victor Wooten Copy Share Image
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. — Kim Gordon Copy Share Image
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
I play a little acoustic bass and a little guitar. In our house there are instruments everywhere, and I love picking them… — Martie Maguire Copy Share Image
I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch… — Bob Livingston Copy Share Image
I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip… — Nelly Furtado Copy Share Image
The relationship in Pantera and with Damageplan is the opposite of the traditional rhythm section. It's me and Dime, not the bass,… — Vinnie Paul Copy Share Image
(Lake) Lanier is a good fishing lake. Everybody tells me I put my dock on the best fishing hole in the lake.… — Luke Appling Copy Share Image
In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had… — Roger Bart Copy Share Image
From the first album I'm playing bass on a lot of the tunes, and piano on a lot of 'em, and drums,… — J. J. Cale Copy Share Image
I don't know what I did to my main bass. I've poured makeup into it, I've bashed it around - and we've… — Justin Chancellor Copy Share Image
Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string,… — Steve Swallow Copy Share Image
This is my second bass that Paul built me. There were some changes that were made. Sometimes I think of changes that… — Mike Gordon Copy Share Image