Top 35 Quotes About Bass Players

#1. My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years.

Les Claypool

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#2. I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

Billy Sheehan

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#3. So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Miroslav Vitous

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#4. 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

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#5. 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

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#6. Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.

Peter Hook

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#7. Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

John Densmore

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#8. I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

Brian Eno

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#9. I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

Ken Burns

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#10. Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

Jack Bruce

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#11. While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.

Bryan Ferry

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#12. It's bad enough when people I know fuck with my life, but when pretentious bass players interfere with my destiny, then I really get pissed.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

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#13. 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

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#14. I really am good," he admits arrogantly.
"I told you, dude. You're really good. When you get older, you're going to be one of the best bass players I've ever seen."
"I know," he nods, agreeing wholeheartedly.

A.M. Madden

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#15. Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

Bill Wyman

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#16. Bass players have bigger instruments." Charlie's slow grin curled her toes and he added, "We also do it deeper.

Rachel Harris

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#17. Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

Stanley Clarke

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#18. So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.

Miroslav Vitous

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#19. Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

Nikki Giovanni

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#20. 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

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#21. I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

John Entwistle

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#22. A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.

Glenn Hughes

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#23. I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

Rick Danko

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#24. I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! 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

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#25. Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players.

Gerry Mulligan

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#26. I was never much of a bass player.

Ryan Adams

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#27. I have the stardom glow.

Jennifer Lopez

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#28. The statements of certain western officials show that contrary to their absurd claims, westerners are disqualified, and impetuous, lacking any cultural background.

Hamid-Reza Assefi

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#29. Women and rhythm-section first!?

Jaco Pastorius

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#30. Crave, v.: Nothing makes me feel as welcome in the world as the sound of you laughing at a joke I've made.

David Levithan

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#31. True enough and opposites don't just attract they freaking catch fire and burn the entire city down.

Jay Crownover

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#32. Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums, piano, bass, trombones, trumpets, saxophones, everything.

Cootie Williams

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#33. That's what love does - it pursues blindly, unflinchingly, and without end. When you go after something you love, you'll do anything it takes to get it, even if it costs everything.

Bob Goff

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#34. I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.

Rufus Wainwright

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#35. She understood from it all what a woman, if she loves sincerely, always understands before anything else
namely, that I myself was unhappy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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