Quotes About Upright Bass

#1. I like things matching. I have an upright bass, a drum kit and a grand piano that's the same color. I tend to overthink things.

Penn Jillette

#2. My mum's family would all get together, with guitars, harmonica, mandolins and upright bass and play old blues and folk songs. That was normal to me.

Dan Auerbach

#3. 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

#4. I got 15 trumpets where other women got hips
& a upright bass for both sides of my heart

Ntozake Shange

#5. I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

Jaco Pastorius

#6. Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

Elizabeth McGovern

#7. There was another group of students already filing down the hall. College students. We looked like babies beside them. The college girls tossed their hair and giggled. hee hee hee, two years closer to minivans and soccer practices and Botox than the girls from my bus. I wished I hadn't come.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. There's nothing wrong with having a few monsters in the shadows. They keep me remembering what it is that I'm walking away from.

Seanan McGuire

#9. Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.

Michael Grant

#10. (As a novelist, he was always looking ahead, too.)

John Irving