Bass guitar Quotes

44 quotes from 35 authors

From the thrum of a low‑B to the bright slap of a fretless, the bass guitar has inspired a surprisingly rich set of reflections. Here you’ll find 44 succinct thoughts—ranging from technique tips to its emotional pull—voiced by 35 players and writers, giving a sense of why the instrument matters in every genre.

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Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".

Mike Huckabee

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Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

Suzi Quatro

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Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

Mayer Hawthorne

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I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

Anonymous

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I play guitar, I sing, I hip hop dance, and I play drums,i play bass guitar.

Matthew Campbell

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

Ronnie Dunn

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I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I…

Mark Mendoza

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

John Entwistle

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I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I…

Dave Holland

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“A good guitarist will always try to get the best out of the instrument that they are holding in their hands. The…

André van Eck

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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

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“The bass guitarist looked like he had been buried for ten years, had just been dug up, and was rather disappointed with…

Randy Attwood

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My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was…

Robert Trujillo

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You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass…

Keith Morris

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As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all…

Suzi Quatro

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Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first…

Suzi Quatro

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If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow…

Marion Cotillard

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I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build…

Nayvadius Cash

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Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as…

Otto Penzler

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“Are you saying that you can play any instrument?'' I asked. ''Of course I can, and so can you!It is this knowing…

Victor Wooten

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“I looked up from that other place and saw Dave staring through the glass. I thought: That guy is a little gratitude,…

Cath Crowley

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Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks…

Steve Lawson

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Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts…

Wendy Starland

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“I played a few songs over and over, trying to understand them. They didn't have an immediate effect. This was a new…

Peter Bognanni

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I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be…

Marion Cotillard

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But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass…

Colin Hanks

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When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea…

Steve Burns

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I've been playing the bass guitar for almost twelve years and fretless for about nine, so I've got quite a bit of…

Jaco Pastorius

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Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects…

Paul Simonon

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I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once…

Scott Borchetta

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We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the…

Dave Clark

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

Colin Hanks

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I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

John Entwistle

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I wasn't very good at studies but was into a lot of extra-curricular activities. I used to play the keyboard and bass…

Naga Chaitanya

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

Hulk Hogan

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I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was…

Gerard Butler

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I was a bass guitarist first before I started playing double bass - and I only started playing it because my teacher…

Ted Dwane

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I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had…

Hozier

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From playing bass guitar in a covers band in Israel... to my various partnerships with media companies, investment companies, governments etc. all…

Haim Saban

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I've always been fascinated with sound, since I was a little kid when my mother Dorothy Dean took me to my first…

Mike Dean

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