Bass Quote by Gavin DeGraw

If you were a musician playing our tunes, you had to play the bass like me for the song to sound right. Then, when…

— Larry Graham

I find it natural to write on the bass, and a lot of people find that really odd.

— Steve Harris

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.

— Meghan Trainor

As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as…

— Stephen Bruner

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

— Jeff Ament

I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody…

— Kate Nash

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

— Gavin Rossdale

I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.

— Robert Trujillo

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

— Gwen Stefani

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

— RaeLynn

Some songs started from a bass line, some started from having the full lyric and Jim, my drummer, who's also the first guy I've…

— Paolo Nutini

This goes for our songwriting as well as our success as a band - the minute we stopped chasing what we thought people wanted…

— Matthew Ramsey