Bass Quote by Marion Cotillard

I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some…

— Marion Cotillard

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

— Paul Simon

I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

— Bill Wyman

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

— John Entwistle

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of…

— Eberhard Weber

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

— Tina Weymouth

I don't look at my instrument as having one specific role; I was raised to go as far as you can. But Raphael Saadiq…

— Thundercat

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

— Leo Fender

It's hard to go out in front of people with an acoustic guitar and improvise for 30 or 40 minutes, but I had a…

— Bill Orcutt

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular…

— Billy Sheehan

When I first started playing guitar, so many people told me I couldn't do this or couldn't do that. But I kept at it…

— Shawn Mendes

Maybe that's what makes my stuff different, 'cause I write it all on the bass. I can't play but a few chords on the…

— Steve Harris