Bass Quotes
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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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.
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I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
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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.
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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.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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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.
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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.
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I always got great respect as a bass player.
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Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.
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If I could play bass on it, it’d be alright.
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I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.
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I'm not a musician, I just play bass.
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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.
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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
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Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
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Playing bass for Metallica is like having free speech in Cuba.
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Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum
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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.
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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.
