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“Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.”

Song Written Bass

Author:Jeff Ament

“Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?”

Should Years Stills Names Century Months Tongue Beer Merit Infant Bass Guinness

Book:Fly Leaves

Source: Fly Leaves

“My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.”

Stuff Company Fashion Right Now Sells Shoes Girlfriend Designer Collaboration Urban Bass My Girlfriend Fashion Designer

Author:Nate Ruess

“More basses, because you are so far away.”

Funny Far Away Orchestra Bass

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“I need one more bass less.”

Needs Funny Orchestra Bass

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“I wonder if I could make an electric bass.”

Ifs Wonder If I Could Electric Bass

Author:Leo Fender

“It's not art, it's science.”

Author:Billy Sheehan

“I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.”

Author:Tina Weymouth

“I love the percussion. It's a right brain, left brain thing. There are different beats, but cooperating together. It's your whole body doing it, you're doing the snare drum and the high top with your hands and the bass drum with your foot. You're this whole motion machine.”

Different Whole Body Hands Together Left Brain Feet Beats Machines Bass Snares Cooperating Percussion Left Brain

Author:Shalom Harlow

“Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.”

Ifs Records Rocks Planets Bass Miami Freestyle

Author:Afrika Bambaataa

“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.”

Way Trying Firsts Littles Remember Girl Figures Movement Hot Pants Terrified Bass Rave Hot Pants

Author:Katy B

“When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.”

Ideas Play Brother Picks Guitar No Idea My Brother Pounds Bass Bass Guitar

Author:Steve Burns

“My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.”

Play Together Song Normal Guitar Folks Mum Bass Get Together Folk Songs Harmonicas

Author:Dan Auerbach

“I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.”

Thinking Views Industry Instruments Point Of View Leap Quantum Commerce Bass Music Industry Quantum Leap

Author:Stanley Clarke

“You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.”

Play School College Electric Bass

Author:Stanley Clarke

“Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.”

Sometimes Film Sides Nice Middle Bass Violin

Author:Anne Dudley

“That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.”

Firsts Necks Bass Old Things

Author:John Deacon

“During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.”

College Involved Fit Guitar I Realized Bass Bass Guitar Playing Bass

Author:Ronnie Dunn

“So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.”

Song Lines Records Lays Guitar Patterns Pops Cycles Bass Keyboards Groove Over The Top

Author:Thomas Dolby

“With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.”

Feels Ends Happens Stage Bottom Scales Equipment Vibrations Bass

Author:John Entwistle

“I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.”

Shows Sea Information Sacred Bass

Author:Alexandra Guarnaschelli

“If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.”

Ifs Looks Objects Computer Warm Feminine Editing Bass Curvy

Author:Colin Greenwood

“I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.”

Stills Bigs Too Much Player Influence Grateful Typical Bass Bass Players Bluegrass

Author:Mike Gordon

“It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.”

Author:Mike Gordon

“You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.”

Left Mouths Shirts Infidelity Adultery Bass Lipstick Fishy

Author:Dolly Parton

“I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.”

I Can Soul Bigs Religion Religious Army Saving Dumb Deaf Bass Deaf And Dumb

Author:Elvis Presley

“I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.”

Thinking Years Done Rocks Picks Meant To Be Punk Bass Punk Rock Playing Bass

Author:Kim Gordon

“It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.”

Author:Kim Gordon

“I'm the quiet bass player.”

Player Quiet Bass Bass Players

Author:Colin Hanks

“I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.”

Trying Done School Easy Bass Chorus

Author:Garrett Hedlund

“My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.”

Ifs Should Said Play Wanted Plans Mom Should Have Guitar My Mom Obsessed Bass Plan B My Mom Always Told Me

Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.”

Two Hands Hours Rocks Rhythm Fifty Gas Showers Rock And Roll Buddy Bass

Author:Jon Stewart

“Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.”

Shows Girl Ten Relax Silver Bows Rock And Roll Bass Drummer Cinnamon

Book:Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook): Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab

Source: Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook): Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab