Bass Quotes
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I play the sax, piano, guitar, bass... I started as a kid with piano lessons.
Mike Dean
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So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.
Cecily von Ziegesar
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It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.
Ad-Rock The Beastie Boys
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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.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.
Ryan Adams
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For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.
Esperanza Spalding
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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.
Mike Gordon
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With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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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.
Miroslav Vitous
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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
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I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.
Tina Weymouth
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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.
Victor Wooten Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
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I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
Rick Danko
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It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.
Mike Gordon
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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
Tina Weymouth
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When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion.
Robert Wyatt
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The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.
Mike Gordon
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I was never much of a bass player.
Ryan Adams
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On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
Noel Redding The Jimi Hendrix Experience