Quotes about Bass

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks. Votes: 6

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should. Votes: 4

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. Votes: 4

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. Votes: 4

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back. Votes: 4

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. Votes: 4

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything. Votes: 4

Bass guitar is the engine of the band. Votes: 3

Bass is for people who can't play guitar Votes: 3

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace! Votes: 3

I always got great respect as a bass player. Votes: 3

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. Votes: 3

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation. Votes: 3

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked. Votes: 3

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech. Votes: 3

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these. Votes: 3

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin Votes: 3

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend. Votes: 3

Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move. Votes: 3

I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]. Votes: 3

I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale! Votes: 3

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record. Votes: 3

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. Votes: 3

Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food. Votes: 3

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me. Votes: 3

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass. Votes: 3

Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics. Votes: 3

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while. Votes: 3

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got. Votes: 3

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car. Votes: 3

After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice. Votes: 3

Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish. Votes: 3

There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me. Votes: 3

Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock. Votes: 3

My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont... Votes: 3

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish. Votes: 3

Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure. Votes: 3

Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form... Votes: 3

Bass players share a secret fellowship, a sort of gnosis peculiar to their breed, a kind of smart that is hard for others to recognize or understand: the art of the whole sound. Bass players actually believe in musical epistemology, they are practitioners of musical metaphysics. Votes: 3

We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.''Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar. Votes: 3

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass. Votes: 1

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band. Votes: 1

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player. Votes: 1

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. Votes: 1

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook. Votes: 1

Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything. Votes: 1

A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. Votes: 1

I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything. Votes: 1

I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs. Votes: 1

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. Votes: 1

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. Votes: 1

Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.' Votes: 1

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals. Votes: 1

Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know Lance, but he comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm a fan of 'Pretty Little Liars' and I'm rooting for your character.' It was surreal! That's how 'PLL' has changed my life. Votes: 1

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. Votes: 1

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. Votes: 1

I'm the quiet bass player. Votes: 0

I need one more bass less. Votes: 0

You can't spell bass without ass Votes: 0

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass. Votes: 0

You can't play bass in a vacuum. Votes: 0

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. Votes: 0

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums. Votes: 0

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass. Votes: 0

I was never much of a bass player. Votes: 0

I'm not a musician, I just play bass. Votes: 0

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass. Votes: 0

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. Votes: 0

Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense". Votes: 0

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started. Votes: 0

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass. Votes: 0

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started Votes: 0

I still don't really feel like a bass player. Votes: 0

I wonder if I could make an electric bass. Votes: 0

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. Votes: 0

Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs. Votes: 0

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know Votes: 0

Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence. Votes: 0

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo. Votes: 0

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend. Votes: 0

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those. Votes: 0

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits. Votes: 0

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix. Votes: 0

Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble. Votes: 0

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it Votes: 0

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass. Votes: 0

The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor! Votes: 0

Hi, my name is Jaime and I play bass, and I have dumb hair. Votes: 0

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. Votes: 0

Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass. Votes: 0

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Votes: 0

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information. Votes: 0

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too. Votes: 0

I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream. Votes: 0

Music has the power to shake society, especially if the bass is turned way up. Votes: 0

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs. Votes: 0

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar. Votes: 0

Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum Votes: 0

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. Votes: 0

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass. Votes: 0

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music. Votes: 0

You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. Votes: 0

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum. Votes: 0

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. Votes: 0

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does "“ I'm a lousy guitarist. Votes: 0

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. Votes: 0

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music. Votes: 0

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage. Votes: 0

The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself. Votes: 0

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. Votes: 0

I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk. Votes: 0

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live! Votes: 0

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything. Votes: 0

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range. Votes: 0

Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow, the drummer relaxes in between shows with his cinnamon girl. Votes: 0

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him. Votes: 0

Most music that comes out of Holland is basically the harder part of dance music - hip-hop, drum'n'bass. Votes: 0

While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track. Votes: 0

Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years. Votes: 0

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition. Votes: 0

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass? Votes: 0

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. Votes: 0

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it? Votes: 0

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. Votes: 0

The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it. Votes: 0

I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake. Votes: 0

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine. Votes: 0

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object. Votes: 0

Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level. Turn up the bass 'til it's up in your face level. Votes: 0

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. Votes: 0

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass. Votes: 0

I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum. Votes: 0

Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice! Votes: 0

September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn. Votes: 0

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years. Votes: 0

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub. Votes: 0

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. Votes: 0

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt. Votes: 0

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string. Votes: 0

I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp. Votes: 0

Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it! Votes: 0

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions. Votes: 0

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it. Votes: 0

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it. Votes: 0

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward. Votes: 0

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen. Votes: 0

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up. Votes: 0

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well. Votes: 0

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it. Votes: 0

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. Votes: 0

I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. Votes: 0

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass. Votes: 0

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it. Votes: 0

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that. Votes: 0

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream. Votes: 0

I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song. Votes: 0

Folks call me Ellis. I run an auto shop with a couple of my buddies. We're also in a band. I play bass. Votes: 0

If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes' hands and a bass in the other, he'll choose the Mars bar. Votes: 0

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass. Votes: 0

Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass. Votes: 0

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality. Votes: 0

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing. Votes: 0

'El Otro Lado' has heavy emphasis on the bass and loads of nice little touches and sounds you really notice on a big system. Votes: 0

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano. Votes: 0

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now. Votes: 0

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass. Votes: 0

I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends. Votes: 0

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement. Votes: 0

I've always done a bass and drum solo that lasts about 10 minutes. The main thing is to use it only when you need to. Votes: 0

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound. Votes: 0

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band. Votes: 0

But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. Votes: 0

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything. Votes: 0

When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it. Votes: 0

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things. Votes: 0

Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

He turned around to see the bass drum popping and the horn sections pointing their instruments to the balconies and sending glorious notes to the rooftops. Votes: 0

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player. Votes: 0

Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything. Votes: 0

Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. Votes: 0

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can't play anything. I don't know what it is. Votes: 0

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop. Votes: 0

A song has to be hummable and memorable at it simplest form, and that's what bass does for me. I feel like the glue to everything. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar. Votes: 0

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18. Votes: 0

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." Votes: 0

When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player. Votes: 0

I picked up the bass kind of postpunk-style. There's a real art to not learning how to play an instrument and being able to still play it. Votes: 0

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.' Votes: 0

My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Take My Breath Away' had that interesting bass line, which I hear quite often. It had that terrible change of key, which Terri Nunn hated, but I loved. Votes: 0

I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds. Votes: 0

The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass. Votes: 0

People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.' Votes: 0

I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound. Votes: 0

It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual. Votes: 0

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano. Votes: 0

The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave. Votes: 0

I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that. Votes: 0

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing. Votes: 0

I played guitar and bass. I didn't do much vocals, although I did have one band where I was the lead singer. But that was when I was in college. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end. Votes: 0

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it. Votes: 0

I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. Votes: 0

If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out. Votes: 0

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open. Votes: 0

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out. Votes: 0

The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its heavy and it's not an easy instrument to play. Votes: 0

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day. Votes: 0

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin. Votes: 0

The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that. Votes: 0

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea. Votes: 0

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted. Votes: 0

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band. Votes: 0

My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths. Votes: 0

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever. Votes: 0

Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.' Votes: 0

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound. Votes: 0

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour. Votes: 0

I ended up gettin a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best. Votes: 0

I ended up gettin' a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best. Votes: 0

I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A friend told me that it was the sexiest instrument. Votes: 0

As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player. Votes: 0

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me. Votes: 0

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment. Votes: 0

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along. Votes: 0

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room. Votes: 0

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players. Votes: 0

People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music. Votes: 0

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it. Votes: 0

I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect. Votes: 0

You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0