Bass Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• 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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• Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

  Colin Greenwood

  People, Bills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.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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• 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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• With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

  John Entwistle

  Vibrations, Ends, Scales

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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 just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

  Kim Gordon

  Thinking, Rocks, Years

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• I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

  Chely Wright

  Dad, Player, Gamer

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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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• 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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• It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

  Mike Gordon

  Important

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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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• I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

  Johnny Ramistella

  Used, Concerts

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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 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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• 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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