Bass Players Quotes - Page 3

• Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.

  Horace Panter

  Art, Player, Careers

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I feel that whatever you put out is what you'll get back. I always put out, 'hey, hi, I'm a bass player, no bullshit,' and that's what I got back. I got the respect.

  Suzi Quatro

  Player, Bullshit, Hey

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown -- all of us point back to him. That's where it started, you know. Ray Brown is definitely a walking master, and to get to play with him is obviously an opportunity that no one should ever pass up.

  Christian McBride

  Opportunity, Player, Bass

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• I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.

  Timothy B. Schmit

  Writing, Player, Eagles

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• I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

  Alannah Myles

  Player, House, Bass

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• My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

  Lindi Ortega

  Growing Up, Dad, Player

  "Knowing Lindi Ortega By Her 'Little Red Boots'". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 4, 2011.

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• The first reason why I started to use the [electric] keyboard is because I really like the bending sound of the guitar and bass player. I can't bend the piano sound. I really like the feel behind it. I feel it adds flavour and character to my music.

  Hiromi

  Character, Player, Guitar

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• I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.

  Donald Dunn

  Player, Would Be, World

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• 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

  Dad, Player, Practice

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• I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

  Jessica Pare

  Player, Bass, Singers

  "Q&A – Jessica Paré (Megan Draper)". Interview with Veronica Hsieh, www.amc.com. March 2012.

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• 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

  Player, Albums, Bass

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• Women and rhythm-section first!?

  Jaco Pastorius

  Music, Firsts, Jazz

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• If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

  Gunther Schuller

  Player, Bass, Jazz

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  Player, Listening, Ears

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• I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio, I came there with a different mood. The musicians picked up on that and we kept on going in that direction. The music became slower, which gave the bass player the time to play more notes. In 1965 I named it rocksteady. The first rocksteady song was 'Girl I've Got A Date'. That one was still a bit up-tempo, leaning towards ska. It turned the tide and made Treasure Isle the number one studio.

  Alton Ellis

  Girl, Song, Player

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