Bass Quotes - Page 13

• We are entering a world where there won't be one but two realities, just like we have two eyes or hear bass and treble tones, just like we now have stereoscopy and stereophony: there will be two realities: the actual, and the virtual. Thus there is no simulation, but substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. The splitting of reality in two parts is a considerable event which goes far beyond simulation.

  Paul Virilio

  Eye, Reality, Two

  Source: ctheory.net

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• The hardest instruments for women to play are bass and drums. Drums because of the physicality needed and bass just because its heavy and it's not an easy instrument to play.

  Suzi Quatro

  Play, Easy, Heavy

  Source: renownedforsound.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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• I've always done a bass and drum solo that lasts about 10 minutes. The main thing is to use it only when you need to.

  Suzi Quatro

  Needs, Use, Done

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.

  Suzi Quatro

  Keys, Play, Space

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• I was raised on piano and saxophone and jazz music for ten or twelve years. Before I even picked up a bass. My whole family has always pushed the arts, you know? My brother is a doctor of music and my cousin is an opera singer over in Austria. Arts were always a big thing in our family.

  Matt Snell

  Art, Cousin, Brother

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• I've never been able to sit round on my own and play drums, practice in the back room, never been able to. I've always played with other musicians. It's how I play, there's no joy for me in playing on my own, bashing away. I need a bass, a piano, guitar, whatever, and then I can play.

  Ringo Starr

  Guitar, Practice, Play

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

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• I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.

  Jens Lekman

  Song, Play, Two

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. February 13, 2006.

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• If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

  Serj Tankian

  Balance, Elements, Toes

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 11, 2010.

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• My radio's loud like a fire alarm:
  The floor vibrates, the walls cave in,
  The bass makes my eardrums seem thin.
  Def sounds in my ride, yes the front and back...
  You would think it was a party, not a Cadillac!

  LL Cool J

  Wall, Party, Rap

  Song: I Can't Live Without My Radio, Album: Radio

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• The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

  Sue Margolis

  Music, Men, When A Man Loves A Woman

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• The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Dark, Lakes, Color

  Wassily Kandinsky (1955). “Concerning the spiritual in art, and painting in particular: 1912”

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• I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!"

  Kelly Hogan

  Song, Rocks, Nerd

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake.

  George W. Bush

  Lakes, Dumb, Pounds

  "Big fish gave Bush biggest thrill", news.bbc.co.uk. May 7, 2006.

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• Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

  Lou Reed

  Guitar, Beats, Drum And Bass

  Liner notes of "New York", studio album by Lou Reed, January 10, 1989.

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• I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

  Bryan Adams

  Player, Names, Singers

  "The life of Bryan" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. July 08, 2002.

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• All my life I just wanted to be a beatnik. Meet all the heavies, get stoned, get laid, have a good time. That's all I ever wanted. Except I knew I had a good voice and I could always get a couple of beers off of it. All of a sudden someone threw me in this rock 'n' roll band. They threw these musicians at me, man, and the sound was coming from behind. The bass was charging me. And I decided then and there that that was it. I never wanted to do anything else. It was better than it had been with any man, you know. Maybe that's the trouble.

  Janis Joplin

  Couple, Beer, Men

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• With the bass it's another thing. I don't need to use alternate thumb-picking as much. Even though Jack says he loves it. My thought is that it might irritate him somewhat.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Music, Needs, Use

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• The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.

  Victor Wooten

  Music, Foundation, Band

  Victor L. Wooten (2008). “The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music”, p.20, Penguin

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• Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.

  Jimmy Webb

  Writing, Simple, Should Have

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• I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players.

  Brian Eno

  Dance, Player, Talking

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• If your concentration is getting bad, take up bass fishing. It will really improve your ability to focus. If you aren't ready when that fish hits, you can't set the hook.

  Lee Trevino

  Fishing, Focus, Hook

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• If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.

  Miles Davis

  Kids, Writing, Player

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• 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

  Sound, Jazz, Wanted

  "Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius". Book by Jaco Pastorius, 1985.

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• Once again...Rick Bass draws us into his magical human worlds, rendered urgently by a hypnotic prose that tracks a parallel and untamed natural world, often with a trace of loss and always patrolled by unmistakable decency. He is a master of this form.

  Doug Peacock

  Loss, Track, Untamed

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