Bass Quotes
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
Eddie Van Halen
Van Halen
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
Adam Driver
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
Ace Frehley
Kiss
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
Karen O
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Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
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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.
Glenn Hughes
Brazen Abbot
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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.
Bill Wyman
The Rolling Stones
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
Eberhard Weber
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I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.
Debbie Harry
Blondie
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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.
Bill Wyman
The Rolling Stones
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
Bill Wyman
The Rolling Stones
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Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.
Meghan Trainor
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If I could play bass on it, it’d be alright.
Chris Wolstenholme
Muse
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I'm not a musician, I just play bass.
Bill Wyman
The Rolling Stones
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There were a lot of different styles in the house - Motown, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, jazz - and my dad played flamenco guitar. Soon I realized that bass was what was really grooving me.
Robert Trujillo
Metallica
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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.
Mike Gordon
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Boy you got my heartbeat runnin away
Beatin like a drum & it's comin your way
Cant you hear that
Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass
He got that super bass
Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass
Yeah that's that super bass
Nicki Minaj
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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.
Jack Bruce
Cream
