Bass Quotes - Page 3

• I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

  Trevor Dunn

  Guitar, Different, Knows

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• I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

  Leo Fender

  Wonder, Electric, If I Could

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• But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

  Noel Redding

  People, Hendrix, Realising

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• Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

  Kim Gordon

  Sight, Singing, Kind

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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, Want

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• When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

  David Sanborn

  Play, Nuance, Acoustics

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• I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.

  Saul Bass

  Beautiful, Thinking, Giving

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• I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.

  Ken Burns

  Player, Thinking, Technique

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• I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

  Saul Bass

  Beautiful, Ugly Things, Design

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• I'm the quiet bass player.

  Colin Hanks

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

  Stanley Clarke

  Player, Intellectual, Kind

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• I was training to be a lawyer... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked.

  Gerard Butler

  Guitar, Law, Training

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• I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.

  Phil Collins

  Song, Brother, Writing

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• It's not art, it's science.

  Billy Sheehan

  Art

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• So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top.

  Thomas Dolby

  Song, Guitar, Records

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• That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar

  Tom Araya

  Song, Guitar, Play

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• Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

  Suzi Quatro

  Guitar, Chests, Bass Guitar

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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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• Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

  Jack Bruce

  Player, Knows, Ultimate

  Twitter post from Dec 08, 2014

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

  Mike Gordon

  Player, Thinking, Gamer

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• I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

  David Byrne

  Emotional, Body, Dramatic

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• A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

  Suzi Quatro

  Sound, Woods, Corny

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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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• When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

  Eberhard Weber

  Random Chance, Chance, Picks

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• If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

  Lee Ritenour

  Play, Piano, Acoustic Music

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