220 Bass Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Bass Bass Player Back Our Minds Guy He None Always Wanted Us Who Played Player Fat

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. Quincy Jones

Waiting Guitar Partner Nice Bass Changed Everything Section Had Since Along Come Became Without Rock Rock-N-Roll Fender Been Motown Roll Rhythm Rhythm Section Electric Electric Guitar Round

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me. Edgar Meyer

Music Myself Me You Remember Father Thought Seen First Bass Bass Player Everything Somehow Had He Know Identified Pass Just Anybody Loved Dynamic Straight Much Moment Who Ever Player

The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself. Ben Lovett

Good Yourself Energy Bass Tools Beef Banjo Express Express Yourself

With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons. Bernard Sumner

You Guitar Bass Horizons Drums Limited Got

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

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. Charlie Haden

Beautiful Music You Matter Bass Everything Out Kind More Bottom Drops Makes Sound Just Stops Full Enhances Playing

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass. David Sanborn

You Degree Bass Changes Everybody Ensemble Kind Record Forces Greater Because Than Just Different Dynamic Sensitivity Acoustic Different Kind Really Electric Play Nuance Tone Spectrum

Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole. Juliette Lewis

Collective Bass Bass Player Component Like Parts Being Hole Actor Player

Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass. Miles Davis

Bass Back He Prince Because Sound Low Might Double Bringing

I tour a lot and interview a lot. I'm on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I've got a bass drum and a sandwich sign and a washboard. You just have to shout louder and louder that you're still alive. Al Jarreau

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

Bass Sacred Crust How Just Anyone Information Sea Show

When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.' Andy Rourke

Music Home Bass Out Kind Clarke Struck Various Investigating Songs Mainly Stuff Like Couple Became Styles Begins American Barbarism Really Fascinated Stanley Started Playing Funk

You don't want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That's why I love the bass - it's adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it. Andy Rourke

Love You Yourself Slow Bass Some Fingers Pick Songs Thumbs Well Lot Want Pony Used Express Express Yourself Why Adaptable

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. Andy Rourke

Work Job First Bass Back Joined First Job Yard Timber Wagon Off Up Selling Very Then Pop Amp Save

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

Bass Record Drum House Going Ben

Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation. Beth Hart

Good Meditation Bass Bass Player Lot Transcendental Bob Really Player

On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock stuff I will write on bass. Beth Hart

Sometimes Will Bass Kind More Tend Write Piano Songs Stuff Singer-Songwriter Gospel Rock Rocking Heavier Blues Either

I always got great respect as a bass player. Bill Wyman

Great Respect Bass Bass Player Great Respect Always Got Player

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. Billy Sheehan

Musicians Style Bass Rules Follow Similar Particular Instruments Became Very Did Different Noteworthy Standard Who Many Unique Thing Playing

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