Bass Quote by Waylon Jennings

My high school teacher, Reggie Andrews, was a huge factor in my learning my instrument. He didn't play bass, but it was the part…

— Thundercat

I learned how to play the music working with my dad. Because in the beginning I was super excited, I had this gig, I…

— Eric Hernandez

In high school, I had a wonderful teacher who, coincidentally also taught Meryl Streep before me. At the same time I had my own…

— Roger Bart

Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the…

— Suzi Quatro

There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar.…

— Robert Trujillo

I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other things, such…

— Bill Bailey

I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.

— Angus Young

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught…

— Mayer Hawthorne

I grew up with my dad's music, so my introduction to rock was Alice Cooper and Cinderella and Dio and Black Sabbath, so I…

— Lzzy Hale

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

— Dusty Hill

Everything I ever learned about rock, I learned from Led Zeppelin.

— Myles Kennedy

Rock was my thing. It influences me and moves me, and it's music that gives me ideas or wings to fly and to make…

— Jean-Marc Vallee