Bass Quotes

I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators. Jenny Lewis
Music Guitar Band Bass Keyboards Collaborators About Records Picked Knew Know Learned How Lot Up Anything Produce Barely Play Started
Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it became rock & roll. That's marketing. Why couldn't it still be R&B? The bass pattern didn't change. The song didn't change. It was still 'Yakety Yak' and 'Searchin'.' Jerry Leiber
Change People Song White Bass Our Marketing Kids Songs Bought Attracted Became Rock Still Were Did Hits Roll Transcend Being Pattern Why
The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs. Jim Drain
You Walk Difficult Think Bass Everything Eyeballs Would Would-Be Color Feel Like React Were Human Room Unified Next Body Your Speaker Standing Whole Thing
My aunt played upright bass in the Louisville Orchestra, and I was always really impressed by her musical ability. I found it really fascinating as a kid that one could play music for a living. Jim James
Music Living Bass Musical Kid Ability Could Always Aunt Impressed Louisville Upright Orchestra Really Fascinating Found Play Her Play Music Played
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. Jimmy Griffin
Together Guitar Bass Fabulous Johnny Steel Songwriters Singers Well Were Upright Acoustic Acoustic Guitar Played
The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player. Jimmy Iovine
Guitar Band Bass Bass Player Guitar Player Lousy Any Player
I was a guitar player in a band that had two keyboard players, sometimes two other guitarists, a bass player, and a drummer, four or five singers, and percussion. We did a two-and-a-half hour show where the music spanned from the early Sixties to the present. Whereas the David Lee Roth thing was like, Now. Very big and intense. Joe Satriani
Music Guitar Sometimes Big Band Bass Bass Player Other Keyboard Guitar Player Percussion David Had Hour Like Drummer Singers Lee Very Five Did Intense Sixties Where Whereas Show Roth Now Thing Four Present Player Players Early Two
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. John Entwistle
Time Myself Age Guitar Bass Nimble Pretty Were Hands Taught By The Time
That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one. John Entwistle
Bass Project Solo Joined He Couple Him Another His Just Produced Producer Sang Who Played Second Fourth Albums Third
Before moving to Pennsylvania in 1999, I played bass in a newsroom rock band in South Florida for several years. John Grogan
Before Band Bass Several Pennsylvania Rock Rock Band Years South South Florida Moving Newsroom Florida Played
One of the advantages of playing in a club is that even with bass and drums, the atmosphere remains intimate with the audience. John McLaughlin
Club Bass Intimate Atmosphere Remains Advantages Drums Audience Even Playing
When I got into songs like 'Exist,' I was like, 'Okay, this riff has some bass sweeping in it, I'm definitely going to have to use a pick... but I guess I'll have to learn how to sweep first!' Johnny Christ
First Bass Guess Definitely Okay Some Pick Songs Like Learn Got How Exist Going Sweep Sweeping Use Riff
I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes. Johnny Colt
Music Me Business Conflict Black Journalist Bass Bass Player Music Business Spill Gulf Had Knew Journalism New Became Left Oil Player Started Needed
Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with us. He's loony as heck, and so are we. We have a great time and love doing what we do. I hope Johnny is with us for a long, long time. He is quite the guy. Johnny Van Zant
Love Hope Time Great Black Long Long Time Bass Bass Player Our Member Guy Johnny He Great Time Loony Doing Fits Quite Heck Newest Us Who Right Player
I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit. Josh Young
Life Will My Life First Whatever Bass Ways Out Would Given Throughout Tenor Sing Up Hit Just Anything Notes Choir Figured Growing Growing Up Needed
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. Joshua Roman
Time Age Guitar Long Long Time Jazz Bass Around Up Which Then Electric Started Playing Kept
Let me put it this way: I can sing a hell of an 'Old Man River,' way down in the bass. Julie Andrews
Me Man Old Hell Down Bass Way River Put Sing Old Man
I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace! Karen O
Love Bass Ace Really
I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, 'Well, neither do I.' I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. Kathleen Hanna
You Girl Band Bass Say Out Tell Neither Carry Magic Picks Talent Powers Well Always Up Any Want Anyone Tune Mean Figure Who Start
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. Kathleen Hanna
Love Simple Bass Keyboard Mad Guitars Sexy Weird Know Surf Scientist Sounds Repeating Lines Snare Loud Really
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
Music Remember Dance Girl First Looking Bass Pants Ways Out Some Rave Hot Drum Learn Terrified Around How Trying Being Movements Little Figure Her Watching
I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects. Kevin Parker
Love Guitar Bass Keyboard Able Put Reach Well Within Effects Hands Hands-On
Once I've got something that I feel is strong, if I get long enough to think about it, it'll turn into something. I'll start thinking about the drums - what the drums are doing, what the bass is doing. Then, if I can remember it by the time I get to a recording device, it'll turn into a song. Kevin Parker
Time Song Strong Remember Long Recording Think Thinking Bass Enough Once About Something Feel Device Drums Got Doing Get Turn Then Start By The Time
When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano. Lee Ranaldo
School Singing Bass High Would Would-Be High School Tenor Soprano Alto Lot Did Grade Grade School Chorus
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. Lee Ritenour
Music You Jazz Bass Pianos Dead Very Going Depends Subtle Tunes Acoustic Standard Play Differently
Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band. Les Claypool
Band Bass Instantly Nobody Because Wanted Play
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