Bass Players Quotes

• The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

  Suzi Quatro

  Player, Car, Bass

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

  Stanley Clarke

  Player, Intellectual, 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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• 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, Bass Guitar, Sound

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

  John Densmore

  Brother, Moving, Player

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• I'm the quiet bass player.

  Colin Hanks

  Player, Bass, Quiet

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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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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• 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

  Player, History, Guy

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• I always got great respect as a bass player.

  Bill Wyman

  Respect, Player, Bass

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• 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

  Player, Bass, Saws

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• 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

  Player, Thinking, Guitar

  Interview with Alex McCann, designermagazine.tripod.com.

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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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• The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

  Mike Gordon

  Player, Thinking, Bass

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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, Bass Guitar

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• Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

  Jack Bruce

  Player, Bass, Knows

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2014

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• I was never much of a bass player.

  Ryan Adams

  Player, Bass

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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• The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

  Mark Lanegan

  Player, Bass, Absence

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

  Edgar Meyer

  Father, Player, Bass

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• It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Player, Swings, Doe

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• Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Player

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• When I heard BB Kings Sweet Sixteen, I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

  Donald Dunn

  Sweet, Kings, Player

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• I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

  Maurice Gibb

  Sexy, Player, Bass

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It infuriates me that stuff from the Internet routinely doesn't include all the credits. Because as soon as I listen to something, if I like it, I want to know, "Who's the bass player?" "Who did that?" "Who's the engineer on this?

  Brian Eno

  Player, Credit, Bass

  Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. November 1, 2010.

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• So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Player, Bass, Facts

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• Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.

  Lou Gramm

  Real, Player, Guy

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