Bass Quote by Bryan Ferry

I'm a bass player and I love the bass.

— Tim Commerford

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

— Mark Lanegan

Traditionally, the role of the bass player was just to keep things simple and solid, so it's really a special thing when you can…

— Robert Trujillo

I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that,…

— Paul Banks

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

— Mike Gordon

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

— Alvin Lee

I really like a lot of different music, and it's taken a while to make them all work together as a unit.

— Weyes Blood

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together…

— Tom Araya

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

— Stanley Clarke

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

— Rick Danko

The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.

— Christine and the Queens

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

— Britt Daniel