Bass Quotes

• Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

  Gerry Mulligan

  Mean, Player, Piano

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• Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

  Steve Swallow

  Running, Play, Festivals

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• I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

  Mike Gordon

  Technology, Thinking, Mixing

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• Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

  Neil Innes

  Tired, Kissing, Blow

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• So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Player, Facts, Jazz

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• Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.

  Henry Winkler

  Florida, Play, Fish Tanks

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• I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

  Tina Weymouth

  Rocks, Sight, Voice

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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, Robins

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

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• The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Years, Play, Way

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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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• I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

  Mike McCready

  Player, Years, Next

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• Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Guitar, Banging

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• 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

  Guitar, Car, Fit

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• 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, Function

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• I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.

  Geddy Lee

  Song, Interesting, Safe

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• I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Stay Strong, New York, Player

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• I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

  Stan Getz

  Sound, Use, Eras

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• I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

  Squarepusher

  Play, Bass Guitar, Starting Over

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• In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

  Bill Laswell

  House, Atmosphere, Quality

  "OHM - The Early Gurus of Electronic Music". Interview with Jason Gross, www.furious.com. April 2000.

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• I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

  Ajay Naidu

  Wicked, Scene, Drum And Bass

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• I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

  Dustin Diamond

  Writing, Attention, Pay

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• No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Perfect, Strings, Accordions

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• I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.

  Gavin DeGraw

  Song, Moving, Writing

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• So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

  John Entwistle

  Guitar, Hands, Age

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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, Saws, Changed

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