Best 135 quotes in «bass quotes» category

For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown -- all of us point back to him. That's where it started, you know. Ray Brown is definitely a walking master, and to get to play with him is obviously an opportunity that no one should ever pass up.

From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

Funny story: I was hanging out with Adam Shankman for Samantha Ronson's birthday, and Lance Bass was there. I don't really know Lance, but he comes over to me and goes, 'Hey, I just wanted to let you know I'm a fan of 'Pretty Little Liars' and I'm rooting for your character.' It was surreal! That's how 'PLL' has changed my life.

I came from an era when we didn't use electronic instruments. The bass wasn't even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

I always got great respect as a bass player.

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.

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.

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.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

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.

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.

I even played bass for a while. Besides playing electric guitar, I'd also get asked to play some acoustic stuff. But, since I didn't have an acoustic guitar at the time, I used to borrow one from a friend so I could play folk joints.

I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.

I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect.

If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe.

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

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.

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

I'm the quiet bass player.

I need one more bass less.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.