Bass Quotes

• I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

  David Byrne

  Emotional, Body, Dramatic

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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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• When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

  Eberhard Weber

  Random Chance, Chance, Picks

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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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• September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

  Robert Lowell

  Apples, Water, Dawn

  Robert Lowell (1955). “Poesie: 1943-1952”

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• We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Beautiful, Morning, Lakes

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• If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.

  Herb Alpert

  Cutting, Long, Sound

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• But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

  Colin Hanks

  School, College, Guitar

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

  Billy Sheehan

  Unique, Style, Musician

  "USA Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan". www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

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• Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rocks, Records, Miami

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• More basses, because you are so far away.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Orchestra, Far Away

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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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• I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

  Keith Emerson

  Country, Player, Jazz

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• I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Long, Half

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

  Mike Gordon

  Player, Thinking, Gamer

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• A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

  Suzi Quatro

  Sound, Woods, Corny

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• The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

  James Woods

  Hook, Mouths, Sticks

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• That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

  John Deacon

  Old Things, Firsts, Necks

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• I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

  Teena Marie

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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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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• If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

  Lee Ritenour

  Play, Piano, Acoustic Music

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• I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Technique, Lines, Stuff

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• I always got great respect as a bass player.

  Bill Wyman

  Respect, Player, Bass Players

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• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  Eberhard Weber

  Play, Musician, Way

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• I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

  Tina Weymouth

  Play

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