Best 135 quotes in «bass quotes» category

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 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 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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 need one more bass less.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].

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

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 play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of destined to probably be a studio rat.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.

It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?

I think the biggest problem with drum and bass is that people don't like to collaborate, and so from very early on I have made a point of stepping outside the box and working with as many people as I can.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.