Bass Quote by Neil Innes

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

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

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

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

— Neil Innes

Hank Williams was playing rock-n-roll before rock-n-roll was.

— Hank Williams III

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one…

— Miroslav Vitous

Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee…

— Lemmy

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

— Louis Armstrong

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

— Colin Greenwood

There was not a lot of rock n roll in the house. Our parents didnt think it was very groovy, and I tend to…

— Elvis Costello

I was a drum 'n' bass DJ at first but not any one of note.

— Dizzee Rascal

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff…

— Brian Setzer