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“I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.”

Country Player Exciting Regard Jazz Bass Pianist

Author:Keith Emerson

“Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.”

Beats Guitar Bass Drum And Bass

Author:Lou Reed

“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them.”

Ifs Men May Children Play Fighting Grows Sound White Rooms Land Citizens Raises South My Children Lakes White Man Hook Bass Cattle Good Citizen

Author:Medgar Evers

“Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel. It moves you - the bass literally shakes you and rocks you from the inside. Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it. It's not air, it's not wind, it's not anything like that. It's solid. It's thick. It's like summertime in New York.”

Feels Real Soul Moving Air Rocks New York Wind Music Is Your Soul Performing Shakes Thick Bass Summertime

Author:Bijou Phillips

“I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.”

Moments Caught Dumb Lakes Pounds Bass Bushism Funny Bush Best Moments

Author:George W. Bush

“I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.”

Kind Play Sound Guitar Starting Melody Starting Over Bass Keyboards Bass Guitar

Author:Squarepusher

“The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.”

Hard Would Be Sound Dark Color Notes Lakes Yellow Definite Bass

Book:Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912

Source: Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912

“In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.”

Kind House Deals Quality Various Atmosphere Repetition Bass House Music Ambience Drum And Bass

Author:Bill Laswell

“There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.”

People Thinking Play Can Do Player Harder Guitar Bass Bass Players Playing Bass

Author:Graham Coxon

“The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.”

Men Music Decided Musical Bass Anna Berserk When A Man Loves A Woman Aftershave

Author:Sue Margolis

“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.”

Ifs Want Care Beautiful Design Ugly Beautiful Things Bass Graphic Design Nobody Cares Ugly Things Inspirational Design Inspirational Graphic Design

Author:Saul Bass

“My radio's loud like a fire alarm: The floor vibrates, the walls cave in, The bass makes my eardrums seem thin. Def sounds in my ride, yes the front and back... You would think it was a party, not a Cadillac!”

Thinking Seems Sound Party Fire Fronts Wall Hip Hop Radio Rap Loud Caves Bass Alarms Vibrate Cadillacs

Author:LL Cool J

“Bass! How low can you go? Death row...what a brother know. Once again, back is the incredible, The rhyme animal, the uncannable "D!" Public Enemy Number One. Five-O said, "Freeze!" and I got numb. Can I tell 'em that I really never had a gun? But it's the wax that the Terminator X spun.”

Knows Said Animal Numbers Enemy Five Brother Lows Gun Incredibles Hip Hop Rap Ems Rhyme Bass Freeze Numb Spun Death Row Public Enemies

Author:Chuck D

“I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?”

Sea Tables Rounds Hip Hop Seats Plates Bass Lobster

Author:Gunplay

“When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.”

Use Hate Lost Bits Singing Legs Singers Hats Bass Drummer Percussion

Author:Robert Wyatt

“So I go to the studio, and just say, 'Hi Paul, it's me, Rusty.' I think I kept it together pretty well, although I was pretty nervous. And before the day is over I'm playing guitar, and there's Paul McCartney over there, playing his Hofner bass and singing. All I can do is think, 'This life is so so bizarre.'”

Thinking Wells I Can Together Life Is Can Do Singing Guitar Studios Nervous This Life Bizarre Bass Playing Guitar

Author:Rusty Anderson

“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Giving Care Beautiful Design Damn Clients Beautiful Things Worth It Living My Life Bass Nobody Cares Don't Give A Damn I Don't Give A Damn

Author:Saul Bass

“Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?”

Play Difficult Steps Instruments Bass Step Up Kazoos

Author:Dave Mustaine

“That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar”

Play Together Song Behinds Guitar Reasoning Bass Neat

Author:Tom Araya

“As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.”

States Sides United United States Labels Posts Genre Bass Profile Rockabilly

Author:Brian Setzer

“Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.”

Mean Play Bass

Author:Jimmy Page

“One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving'... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds.”

People Ifs Want Said Ideas Play Asks Sound Music Teach Player Risk One Thing No Idea Ask Me Cliffs Bass Discussing Diving Murphy Bass Players

Author:John Scofield

“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.”

Kind Different Play Force Records Greater Degrees Tone Different Kinds Electric Sensitivity Spectrum Bass Nuance Acoustics Ensemble

Author:David Sanborn

“If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.”

Ifs Hands Choices Musician Guitar Bars Chocolate Mars Candy Preference Bass Rock Music Sweet Tooth

Author:Gary Moore

“No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.”

Perfect Strings Bass Accordions

Author:Elizabeth Moon

“I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song.”

Writing Moving Song Lines Walks Bass Popular Song

Author:Gavin DeGraw

“I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.”

Player Bass Bass Players Tubas

Author:Rick Danko

“I've got 21 years of experience now fishing professionally, and over that time I've learned a lot about how the bass react. A lot of people think there's a lot of luck in fishing, and there really isn't.”

People Thinking Years Luck I've Learned Fishing Bass Years Of Experience

Author:Kevin VanDam

“So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.”

Hands Age Taught Guitar Bass Nimble Bass Guitar

Author:John Entwistle

“Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.”

Knows Saws Player Changed Cream Bass Bass Players

Author:Geezer Butler

“I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started”

Bass Sabbath

Author:Geezer Butler

“I heard the Beatles and the Stones, and Mom bought me an electric guitar. I played lead for four years and then switched to bass. One day someone suggested that I should sing, so I sheepishly stepped up to the microphone and the rest is rock history.”

Should Years Four Heard Rocks Mom One Day Stones Guitar Four Years Electric Bass Microphones Electric Guitar

Author:Glenn Hughes

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

Mean Player Piano Bass Eliminating Mulligans

Author:Gerry Mulligan

“The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!”

Sound Secret Bass

Author:Jaco Pastorius

“I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.”

Doe Reason Bass Guitarist Playing Bass

Author:Mike Dirnt

“Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.”

Kind Ideas Sometimes Seems Turns Easy All Kinds Phrases Being The Best Flash Distrust Bass

Author:Saul Bass

“I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.”

Way Feels Sex Only Time Bass Having Sex Unifying Epitome

Author:Melissa Auf der Maur

“I ended up gettin a little Gibson amp and a bass, because of Gene Simmons of Kiss. Myself and three other kids would pretend to be Kiss - I liked Gene the best.”

Littles Kids Three Kissing Genes Bass

Author:Jason Newsted

“In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.”

Thinking Firsts Kind Play Used Found Support Listening Bears Musician Instruments Majority Backgrounds Electric Bass

Author:Eberhard Weber

“When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.”

Chance Picks Bass Random Chance

Author:Eberhard Weber

“I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.”

Way Kind Play Musician Accepted I Realized Backgrounds Handful Bass

Author:Eberhard Weber

“Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.”

People Bills Bass

Author:Colin Greenwood

“I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.”

Knows Different Guitar Bass

Author:Trevor Dunn

“Like, when we did Parliament and Funkadelic and Bootsy, it was actually one thing. But there were so many people that you could split them up into different groups. And then, when we went out on tour and they [the record companies] would see us all up there together - we had five, six guitars playing at one time, not including the bass! -, they said: "Wait a minute, that's just one whole group, selling different names!" But it wasn't - we had enough people in the group that each member would have a section to be another group. So now we're finally starting to get them to understand that.”

“It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.”

Age Lines Listening Lessons Ears Wide Bass

Author:Trevor Dunn

“I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.”

Use Sound Instruments Jazz Eras Corny Bass

Author:Stan Getz

“You can't spell bass without ass”

Ass Spells Bass

Author:Zacky Vengeance

“I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.”

Strong Player New York Mets Staying Bass Stay Strong Chicks Bass Players

Author:Miroslav Vitous

“I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.”

Knows Feels Song Interesting Safe Comfortable Structure Very Interesting Bass

Author:Geddy Lee

“September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.”

Water Break Mouths Twenties Dawn Apples Cracks September Bass Spawn

Book:Poesie: 1943-1952

Source: Poesie: 1943-1952

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