Bass Quotes - Page 10

• I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

  Mark Knopfler

  Play, Guitar, Stuff

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• Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Song, Grief, Mars

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.153, Barbour Publishing

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• I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.

  Lou Reed

  Beautiful, Hip Hop, Important

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• I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.

  Dave Brubeck

  Player, White, Black

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• I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich, and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days, but it didn’t work out.

  Hulk Hogan

  Play, Bass Guitar, Work Out

  "Tell Me A Lie: 7 Hulk Hogan Stories That Nobody Actually Believes" by David Dennis, Jr., uproxx.com. April 17, 2015.

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• Because you know I'm
  All about that bass
  'Bout that bass, no treble.

  Meghan Trainor

  Knows

  Song: All About That Bass, Album: Title

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• I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

  Penn Jillette

  Color, Piano, Matching

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.

  James Hetfield

  Sound, Band, Cymbals

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• Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

  Noel Gallagher

  Song, Moving, Guitar

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• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

  Fred Durst

  Electronic Music, Drum And Bass

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• Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.

  Dorothy Parker

  Kissing, Favors, Faces

  Dorothy Parker (1932). “Death and Taxes”

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• The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks it’s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He can’t see right, and he’s haunted by nearly everything. He’s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. He’s trying to make do with what he’s done, while he reminds us that we’re all, one way or another, in that position.

  Jim Shepard

  Cowboy, Thinking, Self

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• As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

  Brian Setzer

  United States, Labels, Sides

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• One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

  John Scofield

  Music, Player, Ideas

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• Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

  Matt Cameron

  Guitar, Sound, Locks

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• I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

  Timbaland

  Jungle, Knows

  "Timberland discusses his hip-hop meets drum n'bass roots". www.mtv.com. December 3, 1998.

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• 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, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

  Shalom Harlow

  Hands, Feet, Brain

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• I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

  Katy B

  Girl, Trying, Movement

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• It was really special for Bass Pro Shops to take Tracker off the side and put Joplin, Missouri on there. They have helped me a lot this past week with putting together ways to raise money to help rebuild Joplin. It's my hometown. It was heartbreaking to see the tornado and see all the people that lost their homes and the ones that lost their lives. It is really special that Johnny let us put that on there. Hopefully we made some people proud tonight.

  Jamie McMurray

  Home, Past, People

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• Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that its much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.

  George Shearing

  Thinking, Play, Law

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• I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

  Kevin VanDam

  Thinking, Years, Fishing

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• Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

  Jeff Ament

  Song, Written

  "Special Feature: Pearl Jam". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 30, 2001.

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• Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm having a lot of fun and a good time showcasing the music.

  Tinie Tempah

  Fun, Playing Someone, Firsts

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• I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

  Glenn Hughes

  Mom, Rocks, Guitar

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