Bass Quotes - Page 8

• As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

  Brian Setzer

  United States, Labels, Sides

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• One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.

  John Scofield

  Music, Player, Ideas

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• If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

  Gunther Schuller

  Player, Jazz, Drummer

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• I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.

  Kevin VanDam

  Thinking, Years, Fishing

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• I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.

  Glenn Hughes

  Mom, Rocks, Guitar

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• I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Sex, Way, Epitome

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• I love rainy and bad-weather days because this type of weather gives me a mental advantage, especially when I'm fishing in a tournament. When the weather is inclement, most fishermen start thinking of reasons why they can't catch bass. But, because I fish so often in bad weather, I'm thinking of all the reasons I can catch bass in bad weather conditions.

  Gary A. Klein

  Thinking, Fishing, Weather

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• Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

  Matt Cameron

  Guitar, Sound, Locks

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• I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

  Mark Knopfler

  Play, Guitar, Stuff

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• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Tony Visconti

  Son, Guitar, Years

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• The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks it’s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He can’t see right, and he’s haunted by nearly everything. He’s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. He’s trying to make do with what he’s done, while he reminds us that we’re all, one way or another, in that position.

  Jim Shepard

  Cowboy, Thinking, Self

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• I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

  Timbaland

  Jungle, Knows

  "Timberland discusses his hip-hop meets drum n'bass roots". www.mtv.com. December 3, 1998.

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• Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm having a lot of fun and a good time showcasing the music.

  Tinie Tempah

  Fun, Playing Someone, Firsts

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• Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.

  Jeff Ament

  Song, Written

  "Special Feature: Pearl Jam". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 30, 2001.

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• Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Beer, Years, Names

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.170

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• I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Father, Students, Harm

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• I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.

  Shalom Harlow

  Hands, Feet, Brain

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• I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

  Katy B

  Girl, Trying, Movement

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• A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful. As far as the digital world goes - it's all going to end up there anyway, but when you hear vinyl it does a different thing to you. Nowadays, people do CDs and then vinyl so it's everything goes; it's a such a beautiful world.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Cds, People

  "David Lynch Talks New Music Projects". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 2, 2010.

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• My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

  Dan Auerbach

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

  Stanley Clarke

  Thinking, Views, Quantum

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• You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

  Stanley Clarke

  School, College, Play

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• Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

  Anne Dudley

  Nice, Violin, Sides

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

  Alexandra Guarnaschelli

  Sea, Information, Sacred

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