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“I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.”

Knows I Can Play Band Absolutes Disaster Punk Bass

Author:Nate Ruess

“Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.”

Feels Play Running Lows Instruments Notes Strings Belly Festivals Bass Vibrate

Author:Steve Swallow

“The thing that's really rewarding is when people will say to me that they had actually given up the bass, but are going to start again because the online school seems like a good idea.”

People Ideas Seems School Given Online Good Ideas Given Up Bass

Author:Nathan East

“This isn't a mass-produced...instrument. Mike Lull Custom Guitars makes each bass right here in the NW. Over 20 years of collaborating, designing, and building basses has gone into my model.”

Years Gone Design Building Mass Models Instruments Guitar Customs Mike Bass Collaborating Lulls

Author:Jeff Ament

“I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.”

Different Style Particular Musician Unique Standards Instruments Bass

Author:Billy Sheehan

“As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.”

Inspiration Used Currents Technique Bass Adapted Flamenco Playing Bass

Author:Billy Sheehan

“In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it”

Hard Forget Bike Orchestra Forget It Bass Double Bass

Book:Need for the Bike

Source: Need for the Bike

“I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.”

Thinking Knows Want Technology Bass Mixing Pickups Midi

Author:Mike Gordon

“I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.”

Trying I Can Done Play Used Asks Stuff Lord Please Forgiving Piano Rolling Thunder Bass Forgive Me Nickels Please Forgive Me

Author:Pinetop Perkins

“Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.”

People Needed Kissing Tired Blow Bored Bass Drummer Larry Drum And Bass

Author:Neil Innes

“I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.”

Bass Electronic Music Drum And Bass

Author:Fred Durst

“So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.”

Play Whole Facts Player Music Is Bases Instruments Jazz Bass Jazz Music Gamer Bass Players Playing Bass

Author:Miroslav Vitous

“The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.”

Thinking Player Worst Worst Things Bass Gamer Bass Players

Author:Mike Gordon

“I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.”

Player Dad My Dad Occasions Drivers Bus Bass Gamer Being A Dad Downsizing Bass Players Bus Driver

Author:Chely Wright

“I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.”

Bits Player Sexy Backgrounds Ems Centre Bass Thighs Gamer Robins Bass Players Playing Bass

Author:Maurice Gibb

“As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.”

Said Moving Player Rocks Needed Rock N Roll Bass Larry Gamer Bass Players Drum And Bass

Author:Neil Innes

“I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.”

Years Next Player Presses My Favorite Bass Gamer Bass Players

Author:Mike McCready

“You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.”

Play Courses Guitar Fishes Tunes Bass Tuna Tuna Fish

Author:Douglas Adams

“The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true and profound inspiration to countless musicians. He was one of my first bass heroes and was a major influence on my playing and my music. My heartfelt condolences to his family and fans.”

Firsts Inspiration Fans Influence Rocks Hero Majors News Musician Profound Passing Passings Bass Heartfelt Condolences Bassists

Author:Geddy Lee

“I live a different way today. I have a family, and they are a priority for me. These days, I no longer wake up in the morning and worry if my bass is tuned properly and practice for hours and hours on end. I don't perform as much, but when I do, there's such magic to working in front of a live audience.”

Ifs Way Different Ends Today Hours Practice Morning Worry Audience Magic Fronts Wake Up Priorities These Days Different Ways Bass

Author:Stanley Clarke

“A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.”

Should Sound Fingers Woods Corny Bass

Author:Suzi Quatro

“I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats.”

Men Stars Cat Brown Rays Frank Imitation Bass Charlie Jimmy Jerry Hendrix Imitator Coltrane Stravinsky Backing Up Charles I

Author:Jaco Pastorius

“Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.”

Firsts Play Would Be Eye Pain Lasts Night Guy Song Stage Notes Breaking Down Bass Rigs Last Song

Author:Mike Gordon

“Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know”

Knows Player Ultimate Bass Bass Players

Author:Jack Bruce

“Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.”

Knows Bass

Author:Meghan Trainor

“I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich, and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days, but it didn’t work out.”

Ifs Play Bigs Wanted Used Musician Guitar Work Out Used To Be Session Bass Wrestler Pals Metallica Bass Guitar

Author:Hulk Hogan

“The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.”

Bigs Mouths Presses Sticks Hook Bass

Author:James Woods

“Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.”

“I wasn't allowed to play in some universities in the United States and out of twenty-five concerts, twenty-three were canceled unless I would substitute my black bass player for my old white bass player, which I wouldn't do.”

States Play Three Politics Black White United United States Five Player Twenties University Substitutes Concerts Bass Twenty Five Bass Players

Author:Dave Brubeck

“Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.'”

Done Song Grief Our Lives Praise Glad Great Things Melody Mars Bass

Book:Strengthen My Spirit

Source: Strengthen My Spirit

“Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.”

Kind Difficult Singing Sight Rhythm Melody Bass

Author:Kim Gordon

“We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.”

Stills Beautiful Water Morning Fishes Lakes Fog Bass Lifting

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.”

Play Guitar Piano Bass Percussion

Author:Teena Marie

“Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.”

Sound Band Approach Guitar Traditional Locks Bass Guitarist Methodology Lock Up Playing Bass

Author:Matt Cameron

“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.”

Law President Training Guitar University Lawyer Firm Secretary Bass Guitarist Glasgow Law Firms

Author:Gerard Butler

“In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.”

Thinking Play Player Jazz Guitar Compliment Bass Drummer Guitarist Pianist Bass Players Compliments You Thinking Ahead Bass Guitar Playing Bass

Author:David Amram

“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.”

Ifs Play Depends Standards Jazz Piano Tunes Subtle Bass Acoustics Acoustic Music

Author:Lee Ritenour

“I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.”

Play Used Stuff Guitar Folks Electric Joints Bass Acoustics Acoustic Guitar Electric Guitar

Author:Mark Knopfler

“I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.”

Kind Stuff Lines My Own Study Fields Walking Jazz Technique All Kinds Rhythm Bass Improvisation

Author:Miroslav Vitous

“I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.”

People Player Guitar Like Me Bass Guitarist Bass Players Bass Guitar

Author:John Entwistle

“I always got great respect as a bass player.”

Player Respect Bass Great Respect Bass Players

Author:Bill Wyman

“I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.”

Looks Different Type Instruments Bass Hypnosis

Author:Billy Sheehan

“The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.”

Years Firsts Stills Play Use Son Lessons Paid Instruments Guitar My Son This Day Bass Eleven Fiddle Ukulele

Author:Tony Visconti

“Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass.”

Play Fun Edges Tunes Bass

Author:Brian Acton

“But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.”

Remember Player Guitar Dozen Bass Guitar Player Dimes

Author:Krist Novoselic

“I write pop songs. But I think it is sprinkled with a lot of counter-culture references. It ranged from rap to hip hop to trip hop, house, drum and bass, and experimental and improv and jazz.”

Thinking Writing Song Culture House Jazz Hip Hop Pops Rap Hips Hops Bass Pop Song Counter Culture Drum And Bass

Author:Nelly Furtado

“Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The music gave you back the beat so you could dream. A whole generation running with a Fender bass...The people just have to die for the music. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music? Die for it. Isn't it pretty? Wouldn't you die for something pretty?Perhaps I should die. After all, all the great blues singers did die. But life is getting better now.I don't want to die. Do I? - Lou Reed (1965-1968)”

People Want Should Whole Dream Running Life Is Dies Generations Rocks Dying Beats Singers Get Better Why Not Bass Great People Wanting To Die Reeds Better Now

Author:Legs McNeil

“The protagonist of Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours doesn’t make it easy for us, channeling as he does Barry Hannah and Denis Johnson by way of Rick Bass and Dennis Hopper, and self-presenting as yet another damaged romantic who thinks it’s always time to play the cowboy, skating in and out of sense. He can’t see right, and he’s haunted by nearly everything. He’s trying to open up or shut himself down or at least get a hold of himself. He’s trying to make do with what he’s done, while he reminds us that we’re all, one way or another, in that position.”

Thinking Way Trying Doe Self Done Play Stories Easy Position One Way Cowboy Johnson Bass Presenting Skating Fourteen Channeling Protagonists

Author:Jim Shepard

“I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.”

Knows Jungle Bass

Author:Timbaland

“Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm having a lot of fun and a good time showcasing the music.”

Firsts Fun First Time Good Times Bass Playing Someone

Author:Tinie Tempah

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