Bass Quote by Dave Holland

...The key to playing with any group is you listen all the time and you listen more than you play.

— John Scofield

As a playing group you don't go into the game thinking about whether you're the underdog or not.

— Israel Folau

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

— Suzi Quatro

To me, I'm always trying to look for the energy, to imagine in being played on the dance floor. I guess that's the most…

— Avicii

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen…

— Mark Mendoza

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever -…

— Paul Simonon

I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and…

— Hulk Hogan

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body,…

— Robert Trujillo

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to…

— Steve Burns

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary…

— Gerard Butler

As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments,…

— Suzi Quatro

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

— Paul Simonon