If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. — Gunther Schuller Copy Share Image
The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range. — Mark Lanegan Copy Share Image
I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music. — Billy Sheehan Copy Share Image
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move. — John Densmore Copy Share Image
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. — Adam Jones Copy Share Image
While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track. — Bryan Ferry 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 played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything. — Jessica Pare 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 feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player,… — Suzi Quatro Copy Share Image
It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and… — Floor Jansen Copy Share Image
“It's bad enough when people I know fuck with my life, but when pretentious bass players interfere with my destiny, then I… — Tiffanie DeBartolo Copy Share Image
I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best… — Donald Dunn Copy Share Image
So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw… — Geezer Butler Copy Share Image
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. — Tina Weymouth Copy Share Image
Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound,… — Bill Wyman Copy Share Image
I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass… — Diplo Copy Share Image
I feel my spot is somewhere between a bass player and a rhythm guitar player. I play with a pick. I play… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
My dream as a child was to play with a bass player like Ray Brown, who played with the Oscar Peterson Trio.… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the… — David Amram Copy Share Image
So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play.… — Miroslav Vitous Copy Share Image
If you were a musician playing our tunes, you had to play the bass like me for the song to sound right.… — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio,… — Alton Ellis Copy Share Image
Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. — Gerry Mulligan Copy Share Image
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me. — John Entwistle Copy Share Image
I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend. — Miroslav Vitous 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
