Bass player Quote by Marcus Miller

I was in Hollis' band for eight years, playing drums. At one time we had Barry Beckett, Jimmy Johnson, David Hood - everybody but…

— Donnie Fritts

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

I was the bass player in the '70s all-female rock band the Runaways.

— Jackie Fuchs

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

— Paul McCartney

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years.

— John Grogan

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

— Colin Greenwood

I was with Miles Davisfor a couple of years as his bass player, and it was a beautiful experience. After two years I said…

— Marcus Miller

The three of us [me, Mike Dean, Woody Weatherman] all learned how to play our instruments together. We had a common interest in bands…

— Reed Mullin

Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.

— Ted Dwane

I was in one bar band from 1965 to '69, then I was in another one from 1970 to '79 - a 9-year bar band!

— Eric Carr

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had…

— Dave Lombardo

In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.

— Walter Becker