Bass Quotes
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I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.
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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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So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.
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I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
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I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.
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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.
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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.
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I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
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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.
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It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.
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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.
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Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.
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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.
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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.
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It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.
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The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.
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I was never much of a bass player.
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On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
