Bass Quote by Melissa Auf der Maur

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

— Kid Cudi

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

— Mike Dirnt

I'm a bass player and I love the bass.

— Tim Commerford

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

— Britt Daniel

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

In so many ways, it feels the same now when I play as the very first time I picked up the instrument. There's always…

— Bill Frisell

I'm so into music that I just stop and listen, whenever there's music on. That's the problem with being a musician for so long.…

— Derek Sivers

I love that people can feel the bass in their body.

— Romy Madley Croft

For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be…

— Esperanza Spalding

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue…

— Nikki Sixx

It's so much in me to want to keep experimenting all the time. It's just inherent. Therefore I keep reaching for instruments I don't…

— P. J. Harvey

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to…

— Steve Swallow