Age Quote by Geddy Lee

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of…

— Eberhard Weber

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on…

— Suzi Quatro

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the…

— Suzi Quatro

There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar.…

— Robert Trujillo

There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market.…

— John Petrucci

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

— Anonymous

I love traditional instruments, though of course they are anachronisms. Satellites run around our planet, but we still play bassoons. It's ridiculous!

— Anonymous

I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar -…

— Justin Chancellor

I started working with synthesizer players, and I had to find new instruments. I needed a more complex sound, so I went to a…

— Z'EV

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once…

— Suzi Quatro

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

— Kim Gordon

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

— Lindi Ortega