Bass Quote by Phil Elverum

I just love the hypnosis of a single bass drum.

— Jon Hopkins

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

— Nick Mason

Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum

— Nicki Minaj

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on.…

— Suzi Quatro

I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it,…

— Shalom Harlow

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass…

— Steve Albini

I've always done a bass and drum solo that lasts about 10 minutes. The main thing is to use it only when you need to.

— Suzi Quatro

I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

— Elvis Presley

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

— Suzi Quatro

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay…

— Hunter Hayes

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

— Dee Dee Ramone

I really like bass fishing.

— John Havlicek