Able Quote by Jay Cooke

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

— Kim Gordon

I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses,…

— Geddy Lee

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

— Mike McCready

The shelf life of an artist or musician isn't particularly long.

— Frances Bean Cobain

I've been a fan of bass fishing for as long as I can remember.

— Charles Best

Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say…

— Thomas Keller

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

— Stanley Clarke

I'm 13 to 17, 18 years old; I thought that's what the world was like. It never occurred to me that this was a…

— Marcus Miller

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 actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's…

— Stanley Clarke

I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot…

— Kevin VanDam

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