Bass Quotes - Page 6

• The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on his bass drum pedal, and we realized I could never play a drum set.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Play, Feet, Use

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2012). “After Ever After”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

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• Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long deliberation, the answer was always J. C. Chasez. Joey Fatone's last name was going to be “Fat One” no matter how great he was, and even though they didn't know at their age that Lance Bass was gay outright, they sensed he'd make a better good friend and confidante. As for Justin Timberlake, well, JT was the coolest and hottest, but too flashy, so we couldn't trust him to be faithful. J. C. Chasez was the smart compromise.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smart, Gay, Good Friend

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.68, Crown/Archetype

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• Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lazy People, Play, Differences

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Voice, Whispering

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.21

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• So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

  Ellen Bass

  Healing, Writing, Responsibility

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• Boy you got my heartbeat runnin away
  Beatin like a drum & it's comin your way
  Cant you hear that
  Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass
  He got that super bass
  Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass
  Yeah that's that super bass

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Boys, Way

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• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  Ikue Mori

  Girl, New York, Sunset

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• Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum

  Nicki Minaj

  Hurt, Fall, Fall Back

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• I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Hunting, Fishing, Choices

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

  Dave Matthews

  Guitar, Piano, Instruments

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• It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them.

  Medgar Evers

  Children, Fighting, Men

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• Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel. It moves you - the bass literally shakes you and rocks you from the inside. Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it. It's not air, it's not wind, it's not anything like that. It's solid. It's thick. It's like summertime in New York.

  Bijou Phillips

  New York, Real, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.

  Stephen Bruner

  Skills, Use, Tools

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

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• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  Nate Ruess

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Shoes

  "Fun's Nate Ruess on Black Tie and Band Fashion". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

  Kevin Shields

  Shapes, Drum And Bass

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.

  Jimmy Page

  Mean, Play

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• When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.

  Kevin Shields

  Real, Believe, Phones

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Song, Aunt, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Dubstep, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!

  Jaco Pastorius

  Secret, Sound

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• I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

  Mike Dirnt

  Doe, Reason, Guitarist

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• The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

  Mark Lanegan

  Player, Absence, Ends

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.

  Mark Ronson

  Thinking, Jam, Records

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". weaa.org. April 16, 2015.

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Guitar

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• Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Cat, Daddy

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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