Bass Quote by DJ Premier

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay…

— Hunter Hayes

Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the…

— Mitch Hedberg

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in…

— Donald Dunn

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is…

— David Amram

When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale before. Even…

— Wednesday 13

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is…

— Graham Coxon

I was never much of a bass player.

— Ryan Adams

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…

— Bryan Adams

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

— Alannah Myles

While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.

— Bryan Ferry

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've…

— Bill Wyman

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his…

— Lou Gramm

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…

— Neil Innes

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught…

— Mayer Hawthorne

For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown -- all of…

— Christian McBride