If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.
Herb Alpert

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

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
Colin Greenwood

In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to support them.
Eberhard Weber

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.
Bill Laswell

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

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.
Jay Cooke

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.
Trevor Dunn

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.
Alvin Lee

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.
Kim Gordon

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.
Mike Gordon

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

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
Mike Gordon

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.
Mike Gordon

Let there be bass.
Leo Fender

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
Elizabeth Moon

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

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

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.
Steve Swallow

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.
Noel Redding