Bass Quote by Nathan East

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

— Stanley Clarke

It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.

— Ad-Rock

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 played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.

— Daniel Radcliffe

I went right out, got a bass and learned how to play it. I stayed inside the whole time during Christmas break until I…

— All American Rejects

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to…

— Kim Gordon

The music departments in the public school system gave me a really extraordinary foundation and music appreciation that I still draw from, even today.

— Philip Bailey

My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings.

— Andrew Garfield

A lot of my peers, be seniors or juniors, they'll text me or they'll call me and they'll say, 'Thank you for doing the…

— Eric Nam

Unfortunately, the music programs are being stripped out of the schools these days. We have to change that.

— Nancy Wilson

Being a bass player in these big-time rock bands is hard work.

— Michael Anthony

There's no doubt that the ready availability of music online has created a thousand more opportunities than it's destroyed.

— Mark Hoppus