Bass Quotes

• There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.

  Geddy Lee

  Track, Important, Stills

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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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• 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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• 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'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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

  Ben Harper

  House, Records, Harper

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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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• When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.

  Robert Wyatt

  Hate, Singing, Use

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• A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

  Ace Frehley

  Song, Guitar, Play

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

  Ajay Naidu

  Wicked, Scene, Drum And Bass

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• Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

  Geezer Butler

  Black, Sabbath, Studios

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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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• 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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• I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

  Adam Jones

  Player, Guitar, Band

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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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• 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 like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

  Rick Danko

  Player, Tubas, Bass Players

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• I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

  Geddy Lee

  Practice, Should

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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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