Bass Quotes

320 quotes by 254 authors

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in. — Dan Aykroyd
I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that. — Anthony Bourdain
I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of… — Terry Bradshaw
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did… — Geezer Butler
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. — David Byrne
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. — Stanley Clarke
Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band. — Les Claypool
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for… — Les Claypool
Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and… — Ikue Mori
Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum — Nicki Minaj
Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones,… — Cootie Williams
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely… — Jimmy Webb
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon,… — Victor Wooten
With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is… — Jorma Kaukonen
I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward. — Dustin Diamond
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin — Suzi Quatro
All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I… — Janis Joplin
I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously… — Bryan Adams
I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked. — Ajay Naidu
Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying… — George Shearing

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