Bass Players Quotes

• The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

  Suzi Quatro

  Player, Car, Bass

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• Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

  Suzi Quatro

  Guitar, Bass, Chests

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• Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

  John Densmore

  Brother, Moving, Player

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• Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

  Stanley Clarke

  Player, Intellectual, Bass

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• The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

  Charlie Haden

  Beautiful, Bass Guitar, Sound

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• I'm the quiet bass player.

  Colin Hanks

  Player, Bass, Quiet

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

  Tina Weymouth

  Player, Guitar, Bass

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• Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

  Geezer Butler

  Player, Bass, Saws

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• 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

  Player, History, Guy

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• There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.

  Graham Coxon

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Alex McCann, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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• I always got great respect as a bass player.

  Bill Wyman

  Respect, Player, Bass

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• I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

  John Entwistle

  Player, Guitar, People

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• A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

  Hunter Hayes

  Player, Thinking, Bass Guitar

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• The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

  Mike Gordon

  Player, Thinking, Bass

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• Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

  Jack Bruce

  Player, Bass, Knows

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2014

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• I was never much of a bass player.

  Ryan Adams

  Player, Bass

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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• The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

  Mark Lanegan

  Player, Bass, Absence

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

  Donald Dunn

  Sweet, Kings, Player

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• Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Player

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• It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?

  Brian Eno

  Player, Credit, Bass

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

  Maurice Gibb

  Sexy, Player, Bass

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

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• Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.

  Lou Gramm

  Real, Player, Guy

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• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

  David Amram

  Player, Thinking, Compliments You

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• I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

  Mike Gordon

  Grateful, Player, Typical

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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 that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.

  Neil Innes

  Moving, Player, Rocks

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