Bass Quotes - Page 11

• I get so into playing the bass. The only time I ever feel the same way is when I'm having sex; it's the epitome of unifying with something.

  Melissa Auf der Maur

  Sex, Way, Epitome

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• I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

  Stanley Clarke

  Thinking, Views, Quantum

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• You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

  Stanley Clarke

  School, College, Play

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• Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.

  Anne Dudley

  Nice, Violin, Sides

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• My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Mom, Should Have, Play

  "Hot Tracks: Gary Clark Jr". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. December 2012.

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• My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.

  Jon Stewart

  Two, Rocks, Hands

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• Ten silver saxes,
  a bass with a bow
  The drummer relaxes
  and waits between shows
  For his cinnamon girl.

  Neil Young

  Girl, Rock And Roll, Relax

  Neil Young (2010). “Neil Young - Greatest Hits (Songbook): Easy Guitar with Notes and Tab”, p.16, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Moving, Earthquakes, House

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• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  Karen O

  Aces

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Song, Crazy, Want

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• Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

  Jeff Lynne

  Guitar, Play, Piano

  "Conversations With Electric Light Orchestra’s Jeff Lynne, The Monkees’ Micky Dolenz and The Rippingtons’ Russ Freeman". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• Most of my songs are pretty sketchy. There's not a lot of bass sections. I don't write big bridges. Sometimes I'll try. But it's hard for me to focus that way, because I always think it's more interesting to just see what will happen next.

  Ryan Adams

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2004.

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• 'El Otro Lado' has heavy emphasis on the bass and loads of nice little touches and sounds you really notice on a big system.

  Subb-an

  Nice, Sound, Littles

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• For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.

  Tony Levin

  Artist, Love Is, Ends

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• I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

  Steve Vai

  Running, Real, Kids

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

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• The whole body reacts to color. If you were to walk into an all-neon-pink room, it would be difficult not to react. I think it is a unified, human thing to feel color with everything. It is like standing next to a bass speaker plugged into your eyeballs.

  Jim Drain

  Thinking, Color, Would Be

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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, Can Do Something

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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've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

  Lukas Haas

  Guitar, Piano, Long

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.

  Garrett Hedlund

  School, Trying, Done

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• You can tune a guitar, but you can't tuna fish. Unless of course, you play bass.

  Douglas Adams

  Tuna Fish, Guitar, Play

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• I live a different way today. I have a family, and they are a priority for me. These days, I no longer wake up in the morning and worry if my bass is tuned properly and practice for hours and hours on end. I don't perform as much, but when I do, there's such magic to working in front of a live audience.

  Stanley Clarke

  Morning, Practice, Worry

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• The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true and profound inspiration to countless musicians. He was one of my first bass heroes and was a major influence on my playing and my music. My heartfelt condolences to his family and fans.

  Geddy Lee

  Inspiration, Hero, Condolences

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• I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Giving Up, Play, Wish

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• I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel.

  Pinetop Perkins

  Play, Piano, Forgive Me

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