Best 135 quotes in «bass quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

I was never much of a bass player.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level. Turn up the bass 'til it's up in your face level.

I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.