Bass Quote by Mayer Hawthorne

“Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a band and…

— Patrick Stump

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song…

— Noel Gallagher

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

— David Byrne

We've got an electric organ, a sax, drums, guitar and bass guitar. We sound less like the Beatles than most of the groups.

— Dave Clark

While I was sitting back on drums for years, I was watching how the lead singer interacts with the crowd, how the bass guitarist…

— G Flip

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

— Suzi Quatro

My father had a friend who actually had a hollow-body bass guitar and didn't work through an amp, but because it was hollow body,…

— Robert Trujillo

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to…

— Steve Burns

As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments,…

— Suzi Quatro

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

— Paul Simonon

Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan,…

— Otto Penzler

“Anything with drums, bass, and guitars is under the pop umbrella. We'll continue to try new sounds as long as we're a band.”

— Patrick Stump