Best Bass Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 4

“Sometimes I can listen to music - sometimes there's no choice, especially if I'm out writing at a coffee place. But sometimes it's too distracting. If I'm listening to something I really love - I have to stop and give everything over to it. I'm listening to its structures, its melodic lines, the bass. It takes up too much of my head - in a good way.”

Ifs Way Giving Writing I Can Sometimes Choices Lines Too Much Listening Structure Coffee Listening To Music Bass Good Way

Author:Paul Lisicky

“Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts and scatted on his stage for 20 minutes. After I was done, Maceo's bass player got down on one knee as if he were proposing, took a string off of his bass guitar and coiled it up around my ring finger. He hushed the crowd and said into the microphone, "Wendy, from this day forward you are married to music. You have a gift from God. You must devote your life to using this gift or else you will deprive the world of something so special." I got the chills.”

“I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"”

“I think the most note-worthy part is that Stella [Mozgawa] had joined the band two weeks before we started recording, so that really influenced the way that the album was recorded. It was really important for Stella and Jen[ny Lee Lindberg] to lay down the drums and bass first for most songs, because they were determining how they needed to lock in together, and Stella was still kind of learning and figuring out her parts.”

Thinking Way Firsts Kind Stills Two Important Together Song Week Needed Band Lays Notes Albums Worthy Locks Bass Two Weeks Stella Drum And Bass

Author:Theresa Wayman

“I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.”

Thinking Knows Records Birth Studios Initials Bass Jam Playing Drums Playing Bass

Author:Mark Ronson

“I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of destined to probably be a studio rat.”

Kind Littles Said Lasts Remember Song Enjoy Opinion Week Studios Little Things Comment Rats Destined Bass

Author:Mark Ronson

“Hip-hop was a big part of my life growing up, especially West Coast gangster rap. The reason I was able to listen to it so freely was that my mom couldn't hear any of it, so we would be driving along just blaring Too $hort's horrible misogynistic stuff, and my mom would just turn to us and say, "This is great. I can feel the bass. It sounds so nice." And we're like, "Yeah, mom. We can feel the bass, too."”

Feels I Can Reason Bigs Would Be Able Turns Stuff Sound Growing Up Nice Growing Mom Yeah West Hip Hop My Mom Rap Driving Horrible Hips Hops Coast Bass Gangsters West Coast Gangster Rap

Author:Moshe Kasher

“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.”

Ifs Two Together Three Sound Fine Bass Pipe Scottish Drones Tenors Bagpipes

Author:Yoshi Wada

“I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.”

Shapes Bass Drum And Bass

Author:Kevin Shields

“When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.”

Believe Littles Real Sometimes Stuff Listening Computer Phones Horrible Versions Mediums Speakers Bass

Author:Kevin Shields

“I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention.”

Play Wanted Song Attention Singing Bass

Author:Tom Petty

“The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.”

Years Firsts Song Lessons Guitar Grades Fifth Aunt Bass Ripped Sixth Grade Seventh Grade Fifth Grade

Author:Frankie Cosmos

“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.”

Way I Can Real Records Bass Dubstep

Author:DJ Shadow

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

Three Interesting Player Track Very Interesting Indulgence Bass Bass Players

Author:Bryan Ferry

“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.”

Ifs Party Five Four Player Instruments Guitar Shoes Strings Bass Bass Players Bass Guitar

Author:Keith Morris

“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.”

Two Steps Happened Week Pops Things Happen Mainstream Bass Garage Pinnacle

Author:Kieran Hebden

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

Foundation Depth Bass Dance Music Dubstep

Author:Kode9

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

Way Player Band Guitar Bass Guitar Player Bass Players

Author:Adam Jones

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

Ends Player Harder Absence Faster Range Bass Bass Players

Author:Mark Lanegan

“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.”

World Ideas Bigs Names Couple Right Now No Idea Bass

Author:John Darnielle

“I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.”

Ifs Wells Said Two Hard Reason Play Wanted Song Can Do Genius Band My Friends Notes Lips Versions Bass Playing Bass Vaseline

Author:Jens Lekman

“The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."”

People Ideas Play Three Next Loses Four Week Tomorrow Europe Investment Guitar London Flight California Expensive Drivers Territory Vans Bass Next Week

Author:Zachary Cole Smith

“I think a double bass for me would be too much effort. But the cello, you're really engaged and the sound is kind of right here. So, it feels like being merged, married to an instrument.”

Thinking Feels Kind Would Be Sound Effort Too Much Married Instruments Engaged Bass Being Me Double Bass

Author:Tod Machover

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

Littles Song Bits Little Bit Hip Hop Hips Hops Halls Bass Aces Song And Dance Hip Hop Song

Author:Theophilus London

“Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.”

People Moving Player Brother Cooking Bass Drummer Basements Groove Bass Players

Author:John Densmore

“I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to learn how to play the trumpet and the saxophone. That's what I'm learning how to play.”

Trying Play Instruments Guitar Bunch Piano Now And Then Bass Trumpets Saxophone Kazoos

Author:Mac Miller

“Instead of the metaphor of scales in balance, I prefer the idea of a jazz quartet: you're trying to make music that feels and sounds good, and sometimes you only hear the trumpet or just the bass and piano. Sometimes all four are playing at the same time, but perhaps at different volume.”

Feels Trying Ideas Different Sometimes Sound Four Balance Jazz Metaphor Scales Piano Volume Bass Trumpets Quartets

Author:Stewart D. Friedman

“I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, covering classical pieces, or just making up melodies so I could learn how to use it.”

People Knows Use Voice Lines Pieces Guitar Studios Melody Buttons Bass Covering Making Up

Author:Petra Haden

“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."”

Way Firsts Looks Song Lines Singing Crosses Bass

Author:Petra Haden

“I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's interesting calling it "beat music". That's quite true, the rhythm is up to the fore, it's got a slap bass, and it's got "funk" in the title. But I think there's always a level of irony when we did those kind of things.”

Thinking Way Kind Different Interesting Levels Calling Beats Rhythm Titles Irony Different Ways Tension Pulling Bass Slap Funk

Author:Stephen Mallinder

“Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.”

Writing Firsts Littles Stills Sometimes Memories Distance Notes Backgrounds These Days Bass

Author:Paul Beatty

“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.”

Thinking I Can Play Happens Parliament Bass

Author:Anthony Bourdain

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

Faces Turns Levels Taste Your Face Rapper Bass

Author:Kanye West

“Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song.”

Knows Wanted Song Sound Lines Walks Records Heard Please Paper Guitar Radio Strings Bass Tempo Starks

Author:Johnny Cash

“Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.”

Ifs Art Play Easy Enjoy My Own Careers Player Painting Depends Musician Art Is Studios Serenity Solo Bass Mayhem Bass Players

Author:Horace Panter

“We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.”

World Two Reality Eye Events Tone Entering Bass Simulation Splitting Substitution Symmetrical

Author:Paul Virilio

“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.”

Play Easy Needed Instruments Heavy Hardest Bass Physicality

Author:Suzi Quatro

“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.”

Feels Player Hey Get Back Bullshit Bass Bass Players

Author:Suzi Quatro

“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.”

Needs Done Use Lasts Minutes Solo Bass

Author:Suzi Quatro

“The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.”

Important Play Space Keys Engines Bass

Author:Suzi Quatro

“I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family.”

“If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.”

Ifs Writing Littles Kids Easy Player Genius Gifted Bass Dynamite Funky Bass Players

Author:Miles Davis

“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.”

Trying Long Moving Names Differences Known Sea Produce Chinese Bass Marketers Peddler Chileans

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

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

Should Practice Bass

Author:Geddy Lee

“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.”

Stills Important Track Bass Pyrotechnics

Author:Geddy Lee

“I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.”

Firsts Kind I Can Play Remember Song Guitar Chords Bass Progression

Author:Geddy Lee

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

Mind Wanted Guy History Player Fats Bass Bass Players Great Beatles Playing Bass

Author:Paul McCartney

“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.”

Way Bigs Strong Sound Lines Memories Messages Heavy Rap Bass Reggae Rap Music Reggae Music

Author:Nas

“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.”

Justice My Own Cliffs Bass Signatures Hendrix Metallica

Author:Jason Newsted

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

Player Car Function Colour Engines Bass Bass Players

Author:Suzi Quatro

Bass Quotes

Related topics

Bass Quotes