"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and……" — Neil Innes
"But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him."
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Neil Innes
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30 Quotes by Neil Innes
Neil Innes has 30 quotes on this site.
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Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.
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In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.
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But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song…
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Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and…
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When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program…
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As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So…
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Answers given with authority negate the search for truth.
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But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
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I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.
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I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.
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I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to…
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I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.
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More Bass Quotes
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one of 320 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I…
— Dan Aykroyd
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I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined…
— Geezer Butler
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
— David Byrne
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Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
— Stanley Clarke
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Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.
— Les Claypool
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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since…
— Les Claypool
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus.…
— Ikue Mori
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Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum
— Nicki Minaj
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of…
— Jimmy Webb
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