Bass Quotes - Page 15

• People used to think of vocal music as boring choir stuff, once you figured out that you can do crazy beat-boxing, awesome bass lines (and) throw everything together, you just have really cool music.

  Isaac Hecker

  Music, Crazy, Thinking

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• Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.

  Bill Wyman

  Player, Sound, Boards

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• I can't really sing and play live, because I can't play bass efficiently and sing at the same time. If I concentrated on the vocals, I'd mess up the bass, and if I concentrated on the bass, I'd forget the lines.

  Bill Wyman

  Play, Lines, Forget

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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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• People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.

  Peter Steele

  Hands, Play, People

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

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

  Mike Huckabee

  Rocks, Guitar, Play

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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, Toronto

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• Lance Bass needs to quit worrying about outer space and celebrate life by learning how to kill his own food.

  Ted Nugent

  Space, Worry, Needs

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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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• Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

  Anton Chekhov

  Horse, Double Bass, Doe

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• If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.

  George Harrison

  Past, Car, Skins

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• Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Player, Sweat, Singers

  Source: artvoice.com

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• You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or break a car window. You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch but the best crutch I could have.

  Stephen Bruner

  Car, Brain, Hammers

  "Thundercat’s Touching Bass". Interview with Tempe Nakiska, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2013.

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• In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

  Paul Fournel

  Double Bass, Orchestra, Forget

  Paul Fournel (2003). “Need for the Bike”, p.57, U of Nebraska Press

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• Bass is for people who can't play guitar

  Eddie Van Halen

  Guitar, Play, People

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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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• When we listen to improvisational jazz, or solo classical violinists, the way they phrase and inflect melodies feels vocal, like they’re talking to us. When I was figuring out how to perform solo, I wanted to move back and forth between bass riffs, melody, and harmony, so I often used sounds instead of — or alongside — the words of a song. I found that if I sang a line using the consonants, vowels, shadings, and inflection we recognize as human language sounds, people responded as if I were talking to them.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Song, Moving, Talking

  "Sing Your Prayers: An Interview With Bobby McFerrin". Omega Institute Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Years, Play

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• Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

  Justin Broadrick

  Rocks, Guitar, Creative

  Interview with Justinas Mikulskis, secretthirteen.org.

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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 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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• 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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• 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, Want

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

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• Most records, you build from the drums and bass up. This one, we started with the vocals in Nashville and recorded them live with just the guitars and tried to make that complete and lovely-sounding without any adornment at all. I really wanted to get something with the vocal that I've never gotten before Armchair Apocrypha.

  Andrew Bird

  Guitar, Nashville, Lovely

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• I need one more bass less.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Needs, Orchestra

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