Bass player Quotes · Page 6

... one thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that,…

— John Scofield

Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.

— Ted Dwane

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

— Jimmy Iovine

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

— Miroslav Vitous

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is…

— Miroslav Vitous

The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar…

— Hiromi

Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really…

— Flea

“I'm sorry, Hen. I still have feelings for you. It's just that my band needs a real bass player now. We're not…

— Daniel Ehrenhaft

Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called…

— Robert Trujillo

It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is…

— Wynton Marsalis

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

— Tobias Forge

I didn't start off as a bass player, and Guns was the first band I really, like, 'Oh, I'm gonna be a…

— Duff McKagan

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

— Gunther Schuller

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

— Michael Anthony

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

— Miroslav Vitous

“It was a want ad for a band seeking a bass player. The name to call was Slash. With”

— Duff McKagan

“For People Starting Out—Say “Yes” When Derek was 18, he was living in Boston, attending the Berklee College of Music. “I’m in…

— Timothy Ferriss

I was with Miles Davisfor a couple of years as his bass player, and it was a beautiful experience. After two years…

— Marcus Miller

We heard this wild solo going on and thought, I dont see any guitar player up there. It turned out it was…

— James Hetfield

To me to be a solo artist means I can do so many new and exciting things and I feel very strongly…

— Melissa Auf der Maur

I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio,…

— Alton Ellis

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

— Rick Danko

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

— John Densmore

“The penny dropped. I sat in my room and burst into tears. Our band had barely begun, and already our drummer and…

— Tom Fletcher