Bass Quote by Mike Gordon

So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more,…

— Miroslav Vitous

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

— Adam Jones

I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A…

— Nate Mendel

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

— Tim Commerford

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

— John Deacon

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

— Trevor Dunn

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to…

— David Sanborn

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

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

— Devin Townsend

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 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

I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's…

— Stanley Clarke