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The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should. -- Geddy Lee
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. -- Tina Weymouth
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours. -- Suzi Quatro
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back. -- Paul McCartney
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
The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything. -- Charlie Haden
Bass guitar is the engine of the band. -- Suzi Quatro
Bass is for people who can't play guitar -- Eddie Van Halen
I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace! -- Karen O
I always got great respect as a bass player. -- Bill Wyman
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. -- Stanley Clarke
Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation. -- George Plimpton
I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked. -- Ajay Naidu
I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech. -- Tina Weymouth
Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin -- Suzi Quatro
I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend. -- Miroslav Vitous
Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move. -- John Densmore
I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]. -- Theophilus London
I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale! -- Kristin Davis
I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record. -- Ben Harper
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. -- Little Richard
Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food. -- Ted Nugent
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me. -- John Entwistle
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
Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics. -- Kode9
That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while. -- John Deacon
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. -- Stan Getz
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. -- Dee Dee Ramone
After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist. -- Meghan Trainor
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it. -- Geezer Butler
With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far. -- John Entwistle
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. -- Lee Ritenour
Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung? -- Charles Stuart Calverley
I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice. -- Tina Weymouth
Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish. -- Henry Winkler
There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me. -- Geddy Lee
Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock. -- Afrika Bambaataa
My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower. -- Jon Stewart
My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that. -- Nate Ruess
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... -- Steven Wilson
We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish. -- Jennifer Granholm
Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure. -- Aaron Lazar
Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form... -- Doug Peacock
Bass players share a secret fellowship, a sort of gnosis peculiar to their breed, a kind of smart that is hard for others to recognize or understand: the art of the whole sound. Bass players actually believe in musical epistemology, they are practitioners of musical metaphysics. -- Randall E. Auxier
We stopped and listened. Just on the cusp of hearing I detected a rhythmic pounding, more a vibration in the concrete than a sound.'Drums,' I said and then because I couldn't resist it. 'Drums in the deep.''Drum and Bass in the deep,' said Kumar. -- Ben Aaronovitch
I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass. -- Fred Durst
Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band. -- Les Claypool
The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player. -- Mike Gordon
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. -- Adam Jones
So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument. -- Miroslav Vitous
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in. -- Dan Aykroyd
If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook. -- Lee Trevino
Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything. -- Quincy Jones
A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else. -- Hunter Hayes
I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything. -- FKA twigs
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs. -- Lou Reed
In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. -- David Amram
I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them. -- Nate Ruess
Hendrix was the bass player for Little Richard. We were both left-handed, but we would use a right-handed guitar held upside down and backwards. He developed my slides and my riffs. In fact he used to say, and this is documented, 'I patterned my style after Dick Dale.' -- Dick Dale
Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals. -- Diplo
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. -- Ryan Guzman
My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass. -- Afrika Bambaataa
I play bass. I play a bit of guitar. I've never been to a lesson, so my theory of music is non-existent in any instrument, but we always had guitars around. My dad taught me to play drums for 'Love Actually,' and I still play drums now. But I'm not a 'drummer.' I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist. -- Thomas Sangster
I'm the quiet bass player. -- Colin Hanks
I need one more bass less. -- Eugene Ormandy
You can't spell bass without ass -- Zacky Vengeance
Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass. -- Lou Reed
You can't play bass in a vacuum. -- Roger Glover
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. -- Teena Marie
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums. -- Lou Reed
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass. -- Eddie Van Halen
I was never much of a bass player. -- Ryan Adams
I'm not a musician, I just play bass. -- Bill Wyman
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass. -- Adam Driver
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. -- Lou Reed
Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense". -- Mike Huckabee
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started. -- Geezer Butler
I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass. -- Timbaland
I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started -- Geezer Butler
I still don't really feel like a bass player. -- Kim Gordon
I wonder if I could make an electric bass. -- Leo Fender
It's really hard for me to sing and play bass. -- Kim Gordon
Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs. -- Jeff Ament
Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know -- Jack Bruce
Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence. -- Jimmy Page
On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo. -- Noel Redding
It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend. -- Mike Gordon
Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those. -- Mayer Hawthorne
I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits. -- Britt Daniel
But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix. -- Noel Redding
Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble. -- Meghan Trainor
In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it -- Paul Fournel
It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass. -- Alvin Lee
The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor! -- Jaco Pastorius
Hi, my name is Jaime and I play bass, and I have dumb hair. -- Jaime Preciado
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. -- Eberhard Weber
Close to the Edge by Yes. Such a fun tune to play on bass. -- Brian Acton
I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. -- Pitbull
I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information. -- Alexandra Guarnaschelli
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too. -- Rick Danko
I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream. -- Anthony Bourdain
Music has the power to shake society, especially if the bass is turned way up. -- Jarod Kintz
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs. -- Ace Frehley
I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar. -- Trevor Dunn
Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum -- Nicki Minaj
Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. -- Gerry Mulligan
Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass. -- Colin Greenwood
I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music. -- Kevin Shields
You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. -- Douglas Adams
I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum. -- Nick Mason
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully. -- Elizabeth Moon
I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does "? I'm a lousy guitarist. -- Mike Dirnt
Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult. -- Kim Gordon
I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music. -- Billy Sheehan
It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
The energy in the banjo, and the beef in the bass. They're good tools to express yourself. -- Ben Lovett
If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player. -- Gunther Schuller
I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk. -- Angelina Jolie

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