All About That Bass Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Because you know I'm
All about that bass
'Bout that bass, no treble.

Meghan Trainor

#3. 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

#4. There's the slightly intoxicating feeling that accompanies the largest blizzards - the realization that there's a chance, increasing by every second, that you are about to be trapped by beauty.

Rick Bass

#5. 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

#6. The golden rule for playing the bass is that's it all about feel, not just plonking away. You need to feel the sound, not using a pick or a plectrum - which has meant plenty of calluses on my fingers.

Suzi Quatro

#7. 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

#8. I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

Nayvadius Cash

#9. James Ralston, my guitar player, has performed with Tina Turner for about 22 years. Jim Hanson on bass has played with Johnny Cash, Rodney Crowell and Bruce Springsteen, and they're fantastic musicians and amazing singers they get a really cool vocal sound together.

Vonda Shepard

#10. I'm used to people talking about me.

Lance Bass

#11. I was reading an article about Kings of Leon's bass player, who said that he was directly influenced by Joy Division and by me. I was like, 'Woah!' It surprised me. It's a great compliment.

Peter Hook

#12. I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

Harmony Korine

#13. Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you're timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.

Saul Bass

#14. In high school no guys wanted to be in a band with me unless I was going to play bass or play grindcore or be in a scream-o band, so it was fun to finally have that experience of having my songs backed by a drummer and a bassist who were just as excited about it as I was.

Weyes Blood

#15. I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.

Timbaland

#16. That was the thing about Joy Division: writing the songs was dead easy because the group was really balanced; we had a great guitarist, a great drummer, a great bass player, a great singer.

Peter Hook

#17. Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.

Ellen Bass

#18. Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.

Ellen Bass

#19. I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

Lance Bass

#20. The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

Nikki Sixx

#22. Largemouth bass fishing is the biggest crapshoot of any type of fishing, but guys who are good at it can always catch some fish. It's all about experience.

Charlie Moore

#23. Perhaps you've heard the one about the difference between a bass player and a large pepperoni pizza? The pizza can feed a family of four. I

Spider Robinson

#24. I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to court and watch lawyers at work. Some were good lawyers and some were bad lawyers, but it was essential. The more time you have to prepare, the better. Always.

Ben Bass

#25. The more specific you are about your resolution, the better your chance of sticking with it. Don't just say, "I want to lose weight." Say, "When my arm jiggles, I want it to look less like a pelican's throat-pouch choking down a bass.

Colin Nissan

#26. Whereas militant Christianity triumphs over all, generative Christianity transforms the world through humble service to all. It is not about victory; it is about following Christ in order to seed human community with grace.

Diana Butler Bass

#27. Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.

Chris Wooding

#28. I might be turning into a guy who talks to himself, though." After a pause, I added, "Yep. I've been meaning to speak to you about that.

Jefferson Bass

#29. I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

Anthony Bourdain

#30. We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.

Lance Bass

#31. Just because I know what women like talking about, doesn't mean I can actually carry on a conversation with a woman.

Norm Bass

#32. 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

#33. My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

Mayer Hawthorne

#34. At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Lance Bass

#35. I'm at peace with my family, my friends, myself and God so there's really nothing else that I worry about.

Lance Bass

#36. Every spare moment was spent tromping about in the exploration, pursuit, and gathering of elusive living things; or, when the weather was too stormy, reading about the exploration, pursuit, and gathering of elusive living things. We

Rick Bass

#37. I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

Lance Bass

#38. Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story

Saul Bass

#39. I actually didn't get to go to my prom. I left high school when I was 16 to join 'NSYNC. I felt that was something I always missed out on, and all my friends got to go and would tell me about it.

Lance Bass

#40. It's impossible to feel good about yourself if you are doing things that you aren't proud of ... It's essential that you ... [do] things you can respect and admire.

Ellen Bass

#41. The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

Waylon Jennings

#42. Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food.

Ted Nugent