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“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.”

Thinking Kind Littles Sound Band Add Bass Distortion

Author:Nikki Sixx

“I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.”

Play Dream Would Be Serious Bass

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.”

Player Lips Singers Bass Bass Players

Author:Jessica Pare

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

Sometimes Running Three Difficult Practice Bass Three Words

Author:Glenn Hughes

“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.”

Knows Littles Character Stories Wanted Fans Changed Hey Liars Hanging Out Adam Surreal Bass Changed My Life Funny Story Samantha

Author:Ryan Guzman

“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.”

Kind Matter Beautiful Sound No Matter What Bottom Bass Bass Players Bass Guitar Playing Bass

Author:Charlie Haden

“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 Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.”

Knows Firsts I Can Moments Remember Father Player Bass Bass Players

Author:Edgar Meyer

“My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.”

Play Son Guitar My Son Bass Drum And Bass

Author:Eddie Van Halen

“To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.”

Knows Feels Energy Player Like You Band Guitar Up To You Bass Guitar Player Microphones Telepathy Bass Players

Author:Scott Weiland

“For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.”

Thinking Feels I Can Able Used Certain Levels Imagine Pure Used To Be Frustration Execution Bass Acoustics

Author:Esperanza Spalding

“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.”

Made Play Wanted Records Player Heard Sweet Kings Bass Sixteen Bass Players Bb King

Author:Donald Dunn

“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.”

World Play Would Be Player Als Bass Drummer Bass Players

Author:Donald Dunn

“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.”

Player Grew Needed Grew Up Guitar Plus Bass Guitar Player

Author:Donald Dunn

“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.”

World Humans Form Natural Loss Masters Draws Track Prose Parallels Decency Natural World Bass Hypnotic Untamed

Author:Doug Peacock

“Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.”

Generations Bass

Author:George Plimpton

“Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.”

World Stills Book Soul Left Natural Powerful Fiction Struggle Rocks Importance Brave Western Celebrate Wilderness Handful Natural World Bass Fiction Writers Lyrical Brave Souls

Author:Howard Frank Mosher

“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.”

School Careers College High School Yeah Guitar Bass Thumbs Bye Bye Bye Bass Guitar

Author:Colin Hanks

“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.”

Knows Sound Lines Simple Scientist Mad Guitar Sexy Loud Bass Surf Keyboards Snares Mad Scientist

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“In our man-of-war world, Life comes in at one gangway and Death goes overboard at the other. Under the man-of-war scourge, cursesmix with tears; and the sigh and the sob furnish the bass to the shrill octave of those who laugh to drown buried griefs of their own.”

Men World War Grief Laughing Tears Tragedy Buried Sigh Bass Scourge Overboard World Life

Book:THE TALES OF THE SEA - Premium Collection: 10 Maritime Novels & Adventure Classics in One Volume: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Billy Budd, Sailor, Benito Cereno & The Encantadas (Based on the Author's Experiences on a Cargo Ship & US Navy Service)

Source: THE TALES OF THE SEA - Premium Collection: 10 Maritime Novels & Adventure Classics in One Volume: Moby-Dick, Typee, Omoo, Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket, Israel Potter, Billy Budd, Sailor, Benito Cereno & The Encantadas (Based on the Author's Experiences on a Cargo Ship & US Navy Service)

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

Play Running Couple Band Folks Shops Call Me Buddy Bass

Author:Ellis

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

House Records Bass Harper Drum And Bass

Author:Ben Harper

“Hi, my name is Jaime and I play bass, and I have dumb hair.”

Play Names Hair Dumb Bass Hi My Name Is

Author:Jaime Preciado

“I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.”

Firsts Made Stills Different Play Song Girl Bits Numbers Player Periods Scene Musician Music Is Notes Studios Mood Treasure Tides Bass Tempo Isle Bass Players Different Moods

Author:Alton Ellis

“Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together.”

Sometimes Home Together Strong Lines Special Advantage Chemistry Bass Get Together

Author:Chad Smith

“President Bush stopped off at a bass pro fishing store to pick up a fishing reel, some line and some rubber worms. He's going to disappear and go fishing. So he must think he's back in the National Guard.”

Thinking President Lines Picks Disappear Stores Fishing Worms President Bush Bass Rubber National Guard

Author:Jay Leno

“(Lake) Lanier is a good fishing lake. Everybody tells me I put my dock on the best fishing hole in the lake. In fact, I've sat on the dock and caught a 12 pound bass. I saw another guy catch about a 40 pound and 26 pound striper one morning In front of my dock, and I used to catch a lot of 8 to 9 pound largemouth around it.”

Facts Used Guy Morning Saws Fronts Caught Holes Sat Lakes Fishing Pounds Bass Other Guys Docks

Author:Luke Appling

“Where I grew up, I could be a punk rocker and a jock. But in college, it became apparent that those two worlds didn't mix. When I brought my guitar back to school after Thanksgiving break, a friend handed me his bass and said, 'Listen to the Ramones.'”

World Said Two School Break College Grew Grew Up Guitar Punk Bass Punk Rock Two Worlds Jocks Rockers Ramones

Author:Jeff Ament

“Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.”

Littles Play Keys Guitar Bass Bass Guitar

Author:Mayer Hawthorne

“Louis 'Thunder Thumbs' Johnson was one of the greatest bass players to ever pick up the instrument, as a member of the Brothers Johnson, we shared decades of magical times working together in the studio and touring the world. From my albums 'Body Heat' and 'Mellow Madness,' to their platinum albums 'Look Out for #1,' 'Right On Time,' 'Blam' and 'Light Up the Night,' which I produced, to Michael's solo debut 'Off the Wall,' I considered Louis a core member of my production team. He was a dear and beloved friend and brother, and I will miss his presence and joy of life every day.”

“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.”

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Author:Hunter Hayes

“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.”

People Thinking Together Used Stuff Can Do Lines Music Crazy Beats Boring Boxing Vocal Bass Really Cool Choir Cool Music Vocal Music

Author:Isaac Hecker

“Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.”

Needs I Can Play Sound Player Studios Fats Suits Boards Inches Speakers Bass Bass Players

Author:Bill Wyman

“I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated on the vocals, I'd mess up the bass, and if I concentrated on the bass, I'd forget the lines.”

Ifs I Can Play Lines Forget Mess Vocal Bass Because I Can

Author:Bill Wyman

“I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.”

Knows Writing Years Play Bigs Wanted Leader Band Smoke Tunes Fascinating Bass Charlie Pipe Old You Glasgow

Author:Jack Bruce

“Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.”

Firsts Littles Has Beens Purpose Speak Creative Rocks Involved Band Beats Machines Instruments Guitar Driven Rhythm Etc Progressive Bass Emulate Helm Articulation Instrumentation

Author:Justin Broadrick

“Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup.”

Ifs Knows Two Humor Funny Turns Next Imagine Player Magic Beats Sticks Soup Bass Drummer Wands Bass Players Magic Wands

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"”

People Way Lines Pleasure Boys Hopefully Bass

Author:Lauryn Hill

“I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.”

Ifs Guy Choices Enjoy Week Yeah Fishing Hunting Bass Deer Days Of The Week Deer Hunting

Author:Larry the Cable Guy

“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.”

Instruments Guitar Piano Bass Percussion

Author:Dave Matthews

“Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.”

Sometimes Player Majors Messages Music Is Beats Singers Statements Poetry Is Sweat Bass Carrier Bass Players

Author:Nikki Giovanni

“The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar and bass player. I can't bend the piano sound. I really like the feel behind it. I feel it adds flavour and character to my music.”

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Author:Hiromi

“It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?”

Ifs Knows Want Stuff Player Internet Credit Engineers Bass Bass Players

Author:Brian Eno

“A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.”

Enough Sound Situation Modern Band Lows Bass Dense Cymbals

Author:James Hetfield

“It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.”

Firsts First Time Bass Double Standard Double Bass

Author:Alvin Lee

“Most records, you build from the drums and bass up. This one, we started with the vocals in Nashville and recorded them live with just the guitars and tried to make that complete and lovely-sounding without any adornment at all. I really wanted to get something with the vocal that I've never gotten before Armchair Apocrypha.”

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Author:Andrew Bird

“I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.”

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Author:Marion Cotillard

“When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us. When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of — or alongside — the words of a song. I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.”

“It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge."”

Reason Player Judging Balance Logic Jazz Checks Branches Executives Solo Orchestra Bass Judicial Nicknames Bass Players Executive Branch Legislative Branch Judicial Branch

Author:Wynton Marsalis

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

Growing Up Growing Player Dad Band Instruments Musical My Dad Bass Latino Basements Musical Instruments Bass Players

Author:Lindi Ortega

“Bass is for people who can't play guitar”

People Play Guitar Bass

Author:Eddie Van Halen