Bass Quotes - Page 11

• I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, covering classical pieces, or just making up melodies so I could learn how to use it.

  Petra Haden

  Guitar, Voice, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

  Petra Haden

  Song, Singing, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

  Nikki Sixx

  Thinking, Sound, Add

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Play, Would Be

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

  Jessica Pare

  Player, Singers, Lips

  "Q&A – Jessica Paré (Megan Draper)". Interview with Veronica Hsieh, www.amc.com. March 2012.

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• Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

  Glenn Hughes

  Running, Practice, Three

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• I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

  Stephen Bruner

  Teeth, Swallowing, Firsts

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.

  Angelina Jolie

  Vegetables, Sea, Soy Milk

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• Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Self, Arguing, Harmony

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• I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.

  Josh Young

  Growing Up, Way, Firsts

  "THE LEADING MEN: Josh Young and Paul Nolan, Jesus Christ Superstar's Judas and Jesus". Interview with Michael Gioia, www.playbill.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".

  Otto Penzler

  Kings, Writing, Successful

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• I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun.

  Geddy Lee

  Fun, Years, Age

  "Geddy Lee on 40 years of Rush". Interview with Becca James, www.avclub.com. December 4, 2015.

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• I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

  Bill Wyman

  Play, Musician

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• I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything- You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Mean, Magic

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

  Keanu Reeves

  Song, Writing, Beer

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• Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I can't do it. I have literally gotten booed off the stage way too many times. It's terrorizing. The rest of my band mates just are...they tell me to get off. I'm like, "I can play bass. Dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk."

  Alison Pill

  Play, Trying, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign.

  Bill Engvall

  Giving Up, Couple, Fishing

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 14, 2013

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• I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

  Christian Finnegan

  Play, Band, Good Enough

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• My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

  Bill Crow

  Song, Morning, Reading

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• I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it for me, and I gave him a few dollars every time I could scrape some extra money together. Meanwhile I borrowed or rented basses for jam sessions and paying jobs. It was a great thrill when I finally took possession of my Kay.

  Bill Crow

  Jobs, Guy, Together

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• I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo, guitar and mandolin. We played at root beer stands, like the .Drive-ins they have now, making $2.50 a night, and we had a cigar box for the kitty that we passed around, sometimes making fifty or sixty dollars a night. Of course we didn't get none of it, we kids.

  T-Bone Walker

  Mother, Cousin, Kids

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• I know it was a gift from God. My father was a preacher and my mother worked in churches all her life. My father had a very deep bass sounding voice and my mother had an in-between soprano voice. Not great singers, but they had great tones to their voices. I think that had a lot to do with it. Also, I really believe my voice was a gift from God. I believe if you take care of it, He will help you take care of it.

  Darlene Love

  Mother, Father, Believe

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• Grunge, like Nirvana and all that. Heavy metal, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Guns and Roses, drum and bass. I like to listen to it and try and break down what makes a fan of that music say 'Ah fuck that other music', do you get me? Trying to figure out what makes them tick, I always try and break that down with every piece of music. But the energy in that music, I love it.

  Dizzee Rascal

  Gun, Iron, Rose

  Interview with Mark Pytlik, pitchfork.com. June 27, 2005.

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• I think the biggest problem with drum and bass is that people don't like to collaborate, and so from very early on I have made a point of stepping outside the box and working with as many people as I can.

  DJ Rap

  Thinking, People, Problem

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• I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.

  Robbie Merrill

  Dad, Used, Train

  "Interview: Godsmack lyric". www.askmen.com.

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