Bass Quotes

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

Wanted, Minds, Fat

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

Music, Beautiful, Everything

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

Love, Playing, Voice

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne

Business, Emotional, Body

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
Stanley Clarke

Knows, Nobody, Players

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

Car, Hard, Small

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
David Byrne

Business, Emotional, Body

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

Love, Music, Drum

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.
Bryan Adams

Love, Wanted, Band

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.
Ellie Goulding

Why, Guitar, Brother

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

Through, Play, Put

My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
Eddie Van Halen

Son, Drums, Guitars

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

Down, Learned, Fish

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

Car, Everything, Else

Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.
Jeffrey Kluger

Long, Trying, After

I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.
Ringo Starr

Joy, Play, Guitar

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.
Graham Coxon

Time, Play, Guitar

I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.
Terry Bradshaw

Work, Hurt, Care

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

Morning, Beautiful, Small

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
Eberhard Weber

Time, Enough, Player

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.
Lou Reed

Beat, Drums, Guitars

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.
Little Richard

Rock, Guitar, Call

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

Play, Guitar, Everyone

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

Bad, Focus, Getting

I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
Phil Collins

Writing, Thinking, Guitar

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.
Lou Gramm

Good, Great, Real

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

Black, Everybody, Written

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.
Geddy Lee

Often, Practice

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

Time, Important, Playing

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.
Eberhard Weber

Pretty, Play, Playing

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