Bass Guitar Quotes

• 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

  Beautiful, Sound, Matter

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

  Tina Weymouth

  Player, Guitar, Bass

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• Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

  Suzi Quatro

  Guitar, Bass, Chests

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

  John Entwistle

  Player, Guitar, People

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• Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Keys, Guitar, Play

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• You have to understand that the bass guitar is the party instrument. It only has four strings. If you see a bass player playing five strings, take your shoe off and throw it at him.

  Keith Morris

  Party, Player, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

  Squarepusher

  Play, Starting Over, Keyboards

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• A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

  Hunter Hayes

  Player, Thinking, Way

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• Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Heaven, Soup, Percussion

  Twitter post from May 24, 2014

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• I'm not a real musician. If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that. I want to be able to be in a group and take my guitar and play with them, without someone showing me, "Okay, you're going to do this and that," because music has always been a big part of my life.

  Marion Cotillard

  Real, Guitar, Play

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 20, 2014.

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• 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

  Player, Thinking, Compliments You

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• Plays bass guitar in rock band "Capitol Offense".

  Mike Huckabee

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

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• So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

  John Entwistle

  Guitar, Hands, Age

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• During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.

  Ronnie Dunn

  College, Guitar, Bass

  "Ronnie Dunn: Celebrity Art Collector". Interview with Reyne Haines, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.

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• I used to be a session musician before I was a wrestler. I played bass guitar. I was big pals with Lars Ulrich, and he asked me if I wanted to play bass with Metallica in their early days, but it didn’t work out.

  Hulk Hogan

  Play, Work Out, Musician

  "Tell Me A Lie: 7 Hulk Hogan Stories That Nobody Actually Believes" by David Dennis, Jr., uproxx.com. April 17, 2015.

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• But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

  Colin Hanks

  School, College, Guitar

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• I first picked up the bass guitar when I was twelve years old, and fooled around with it. By the time I was thirteen I got pretty serious about it.

  Mark Mendoza

  Guitar, Years, Bass

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Guitar

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• When I was 14 I would pick up my brother's bass guitar, and I would just pound on it, having no idea how to play it.

  Steve Burns

  Brother, Guitar, Play

  "Ex-'Blue's Clues' host Steve Burns an indie rocker at heart" by Joe Dangelo, www.mtv.com. April 29, 2002.

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• Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".

  Otto Penzler

  Kings, Writing, Successful

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• Eventually as a teenager, I was pulled up on stage by James Brown's saxophone player, Maceo Parker, during one of his concerts and scatted on his stage for 20 minutes. After I was done, Maceo's bass player got down on one knee as if he were proposing, took a string off of his bass guitar and coiled it up around my ring finger. He hushed the crowd and said into the microphone, "Wendy, from this day forward you are married to music. You have a gift from God. You must devote your life to using this gift or else you will deprive the world of something so special." I got the chills.

  Wendy Starland

  Teenager, Player, Guitar

  Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. March 1, 2015.

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