Anchors Quote by Michael Connelly

I always saw myself as a sideman. I figured I'd end up a drummer.

— Hank Williams III

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

I consider myself a bassist first.

— Casey Abrams

When the band first formed, everybody had been sidemen. So they said, 'In this band there are no sidemen,' and when I joined the…

— Don Felder

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

— Neil Innes

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

— Ron Carter

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records…

— Henry Rollins

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

— Tre Cool

It happened to be, from '73 to '78, the five years that, our most glorious years for bass players. We had Larry Graham, with…

— Marcus Miller

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 a studio engineer out in L.A. for about six or seven years, and I played sideman for different people, and played in…

— J. J. Cale

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people.…

— Neil Innes