Bass Quotes - Page 12

• I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Sea, Information, Sacred

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• Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.

  Mike Gordon

  Song, Pain, Eye

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• You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

  Dolly Parton

  Infidelity, Mouths, Adultery

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• I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

  Elvis Presley

  Religious, Army, Dumb

  Song: Saved

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• During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

  Ronnie Dunn

  College, Guitar, Fit

  "Ronnie Dunn: Celebrity Art Collector". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Stars, Cat, Men

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• I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.

  Marion Cotillard

  Real, Guitar, Play

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

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• Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

  Dave Mustaine

  Play, Kazoos, Steps

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• So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'

  Rusty Anderson

  Thinking, Guitar, Singing

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• This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.

  Jeff Ament

  Guitar, Years, Design

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• The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.

  Nathan East

  School, Ideas, People

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• If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.

  Gary Moore

  Guitar, Hands, Choices

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• You can't spell bass without ass

  Zacky Vengeance

  Ass, Spells

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• Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.

  Gary Snyder

  Guitar, Names, People

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• In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.

  Eberhard Weber

  Thinking, Play, Support

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• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Bass Guitar, Heaven, Soup

  Twitter post from May 24, 2014

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• I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?

  Gunplay

  Sea, Hip Hop, Lobster

  "Song: "Power Circle" ("Self Made Vol. 2")". 2012.

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• Bass! How low can you go?
  Death row...what a brother know.
  Once again, back is the incredible,
  The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!"
  Public Enemy Number One.
  Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb.
  Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun?
  But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.

  Chuck D

  Brother, Rap, Animal

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• I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.

  Tod Machover

  Thinking, Double Bass, Effort

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.

  Skrillex

  Design, Hip Hop, Facts

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

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• I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

  Buddy Rich

  Night, Thinking, Play

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• Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that feels and sounds good, and sometimes you only hear the trumpet or just the bass and piano. Sometimes all four are playing at the same time, but perhaps at different volume.

  Stewart D. Friedman

  Ideas, Piano, Trying

  "Stewart D. Friedman on 'Leading the Life You Want'". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 22, 2016.

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• You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

  Lou Reed

  Guitar, Beats

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

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• When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

  Jason Newsted

  Justice, Cliffs, Signatures

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

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• Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

  Les Claypool

  Play, Band, Wanted

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

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