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I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. -- Squarepusher
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine. -- Malcolm-Jamal Warner
I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. -- Colin Hanks
But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye. -- Colin Hanks
Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense". -- Mike Huckabee
I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar. -- Squarepusher
So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. -- John Entwistle
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me. -- John Entwistle
When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it. -- Steve Burns
I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar. -- Dave Holland
During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in. -- Ronnie Dunn
It would be obvious for me to do conceptual art, and I think I've done it already with smashing bass guitars and whatever - I consider that as conceptual. -- Paul Simonon
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. -- Mark Mendoza
You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him. -- Keith Morris
I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. -- Gerard Butler
Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels". -- Otto Penzler
I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do. -- Suzi Quatro
I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days but it didn't work out. -- Hulk Hogan
I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators. -- Jenny Lewis
As Mick Jagger will tell you, performing is an aerobic work-out. I've got the bass guitar, which is the heaviest of all the instruments, and I'm a little girl, in boiling-hot leather under the lights. You have to keep the fitness level up if you want to look good up there. -- Suzi Quatro
Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument. -- Suzi Quatro
You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums. -- Lou Reed
I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion. -- Teena Marie
Bass guitar is the engine of the band. -- Suzi Quatro
I own a guitar, a piano, a bass. -- Adam Driver
You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums. -- Lou Reed
My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass. -- Eddie Van Halen
Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those. -- Mayer Hawthorne
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
I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. -- Adam Jones
Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock. -- Little Richard
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar. -- Tina Weymouth
Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality. -- Paul Simonon
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
Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers. -- Jimmy Griffin
Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time. -- Joshua Roman
Bass is for people who can't play guitar -- Eddie Van Halen
You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass. -- Douglas Adams
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin -- Suzi Quatro
Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it. -- Jeff Lynne
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
Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass. -- Donald Dunn
I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18. -- Lukas Haas
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. -- Dave Matthews
We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano. -- Tennessee Ernie Ford

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