Bass Quotes
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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.
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When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale before. Even for our drummer and bass player it was their first really big band.
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I play two major basses, a 4-string Stuart Spector bass, which I've played now for about 16 years, and a Hamer 5-string.
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You can't play bass in a vacuum.
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Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.
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I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'
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Bass is for people who can't play guitar...
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Ten silver saxes, a bass with a bow The drummer relaxes and waits between shows For his cinnamon girl.
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I need one more bass less.
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You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.
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Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.
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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.
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Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin.
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I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
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I like cars - I guess you could say I've always been a bit of a car freak. I like fiddling around, taking them to bits and then putting them back together again...(but) I decided it was either the bass or a new car - and music ended up coming first.
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Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.
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The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.
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I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.
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I was a bass fisherman. I liked bass. That was my thing.
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I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.
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The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.
