Bass Quotes

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying? Future

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.' Garrett Hedlund

School Before Bass Easy Only Had Trying Done Going Chorus

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should. Geddy Lee

Practice Bass Like Often Should

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started. Geezer Butler

Before Bass Sabbath Never Picked Up Started

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on. George Shearing

I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. Gerard Butler

Training Law Guitarist Lawyer Society Bass President Secretary Law Firm Writer Lead Firm Glasgow Worked University

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. Gerry Mulligan

Bass Piano Most Always Than Closer Worked Means Players

'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. Giorgio Moroder

Change Key Breath Bass Hated Take Had Terri Terrible Line Hear Quite Often Loved Which Interesting Away

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. Glenn Hughes

If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record. Herb Alpert

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. Hunter Hayes

Respect Guitar Think Bass Bass Player Everybody Everybody Else Else Way Out Guitar Player Stay Vocalist Like Drummer Play Player

I'm interested in creating a little sound world for songs, really crafting it, building it, and making it like a little doll's house with little things inside it, staircases and rooms and everything kind of relates to everything else. I've never seen it as drums, bass, guitar and vocals in very separate spaces. Imogen Heap

Little Things World Guitar Seen Building Bass Relates Else Everything Everything Else Kind Inside Vocals Never Songs Like House Drums Making Sound Doll Very Crafting Spaces Interested Little Rooms Really Creating Separate Things

I had an upright - it took me years and years to get enough bread to get it. I'm from Florida, so one morning I woke up, go in the corner, and the bass is in a hundred pieces 'cause the humidity is so bad. I mean, the upright just blew up. I said, 'Forget it, man. I can't afford this anymore.' Jaco Pastorius

Morning Me Man Cause Bass Corner Enough Took Hundred One Morning Bad Had Pieces Blew Said Go Woke Years Years And Years Up Afford Forget Get Upright Just Anymore Bread Mean Florida Humidity

I'm the greatest bass player in the world. Jaco Pastorius

World Bass Bass Player Greatest Player

Book collectors are thrill-seekers. It is a vegetarian hunt to be sure, without much exertion or risk, but the endorphin rush of the chase and the adrenaline high of the capture are much the same with first editions as I imagine they must be in the pursuit of 10-point stags, largemouth bass, or 20-foot waves at Maverick's. Jacob Weisberg

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass. Jason Newsted

Work Justice Own Bass Jimi Hendrix Signature My Own Could Had No-One Put Also Cliff Metallica Came Hendrix

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. Jay Cooke

Life Black Bass Able No-One Been Years May Decide Length

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

Bass Songs Picked Written Since Up Ever

Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish. Jeffrey Kluger

You Long Bass Once Marketers All The Difference Name Until Make Known Least Up Trying Move Difference After Chinese Produce Sea

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. Jenny Lewis

Band Bass Everything Out Pretty Beat Songs Idea Drum Demo Well Hammer Very Manage Where Much Garage Play

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