Bass Quotes
320 Bass quotes by 248 unique authors
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The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.
— Mike Gordon
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I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
— Chely Wright
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I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a…
— Maurice Gibb
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As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over…
— Neil Innes
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I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to…
— Mike McCready
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You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.
— Douglas Adams
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The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true and profound inspiration…
— Geddy Lee
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I live a different way today. I have a family, and they are a priority for me. These days, I no longer wake up in…
— Stanley Clarke
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A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
— Suzi Quatro
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I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a…
— Jaco Pastorius
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Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off…
— Mike Gordon
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Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know
— Jack Bruce
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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 Ulrich and he…
— Hulk Hogan
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The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.
— James Woods
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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 conjures up a…
— Steve Lawson
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I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my…
— Dave Brubeck
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Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.
— Kim Gordon
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We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was…
— Jennifer Granholm
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I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.
— Teena Marie
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Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach…
— Matt Cameron
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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 my secretary of…
— Gerard Butler
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In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing,…
— David Amram
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If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently.…
— Lee Ritenour
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I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have…
— Mark Knopfler
Who Wrote These Bass Quotes
248 authors contributed a total of 320 Bass Quotes, led by these top contributors: