Bass Quotes · Page 5

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

— Michael Anthony

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

— Tina Weymouth

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

— Mike Gordon

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

— Dave Mustaine

The kind of fishing that I do is pretty much bass, trout or freshwater fishing.

— Dale Steyn

Everyone always says there are more fish in the sea... but sometimes you just really want bass.

— Anonymous

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

— Adam Jones

If you wanna get with me there's some things you gotta know. I like my beats fast and my bass down low.

— Dev

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

— Mike Patton

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

— Cecily von Ziegesar

I think people forget even though we were labelled a synth band because of 'The Hurting,' but keyboards are not our native…

— Curt Smith

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't…

— John Entwistle

I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react.…

— Kevin VanDam

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

— Colin Greenwood

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

— Alannah Myles

During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was…

— Ronnie Dunn

In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and…

— Daniel Boulud

Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play…

— Nikki Sixx

I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it…

— Bill Crow

I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that…

— Theresa Wayman

I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the…

— Stanley Clarke

My voice gets recognized before anything else. It's always gotten attention. In choruses at church and school, I started as a tenor,…

— Sam Elliott

Like all music, the figured bass should have no other end and aim than the glory of God and the recreation of…

— Johann Sebastian Bach

I spent five years, at least, working with Miles. Together, we recorded ESP, Nefertiti, Sorcerer -- and I can tell you; each…

— Herbie Hancock

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

— Little Richard

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

— Geddy Lee

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

— Alexandra Guarnaschelli

Dip to the ground as I catch the bass. Then I wipe all the sweat off mi face.

— Mac Dre

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

— Dusty Hill

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

— John Entwistle

I didn't listen to anything with electric bass, guitars, or drums until I was fifteen!

— Bear McCreary

Billy Sheehan has always been my number one favorite bass player of all time.

— Mike Portnoy

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

— Nick Mason

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

— Ace Frehley

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

— Dustin Diamond

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

— Paul Fournel

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

— Mannie Fresh

Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an 'Old Man River,' way down in the bass.

— Julie Andrews

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

— Ajay Naidu

I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.

— Brandon Webb