Bass Quotes - Page 4

• That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

  John Deacon

  Old Things, Firsts, Necks

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• In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

  David Amram

  Player, Thinking, Compliments You

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• I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

  Tina Weymouth

  Play

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• I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

  Teena Marie

  Guitar, Play, Piano

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• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  Eberhard Weber

  Play, Musician, Way

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• I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Technique, Lines, Stuff

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• I always got great respect as a bass player.

  Bill Wyman

  Respect, Player, Bass Players

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• The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

  James Woods

  Hook, Mouths, Sticks

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• More basses, because you are so far away.

  Eugene Ormandy

  Funny, Orchestra, Far Away

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• September twenty-second, Sir, the bough cracks with unpicked apples, and at dawn the small-mouth bass breaks water, gorged with spawn.

  Robert Lowell

  Apples, Water, Dawn

  Robert Lowell (1955). “Poesie: 1943-1952”

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• I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I can't do a lot of casting. I can work a jig or a worm. But not for long, especially if the big ones are biting. Those big bass will make it hurt after a while.

  Terry Bradshaw

  Hurt, Long, Half

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• If you look at a record under a microscope, the high frequencies are short jagged edges... and the low frequencies are long swinging ones are deep bass sounds. When it cut it at half speed, you're getting more of those on the record.

  Herb Alpert

  Cutting, Long, Sound

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• Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  Rocks, Records, Miami

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• A bass player has to think and play like a bass player. A drummer has to play and think like a drummer, and stay out of the way of the vocalist. The guitar player has to respect everybody else.

  Hunter Hayes

  Player, Thinking, Bass Guitar

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• We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Beautiful, Morning, Lakes

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• I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.

  Mike Gordon

  Grateful, Player, Typical

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• But yeah, I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

  Colin Hanks

  School, College, Guitar

  "Actor Colin Hanks Plays Not My Job". Interview with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 4, 2011.

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• I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

  Keith Emerson

  Country, Player, Jazz

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• I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.

  Billy Sheehan

  Unique, Style, Musician

  "USA Today Online Chat With Billy Sheehan". www.billysheehan.com. August 21, 2001.

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• From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.

  Edgar Meyer

  Father, Player, Firsts

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• I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.

  Nate Ruess

  Play, Band, Punk

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• It's really not a stretch. The checks and balances are the same. The drums are the executive branch. The jazz orchestra is the legislative branch. Logic and reason are like jazz solos. The bass player is the judicial branch. One our greatest ever is Milt Hinton, and his nickname is "The Judge."

  Wynton Marsalis

  Player, Judging, Balance

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• There are many influences in my music, not only blues. R&B, Motown, gospel, old timey, jazz, even classical are all part of what I do. I started with classical, then country, then blues, and after that I started listening heavily to Motown and gospel. My earliest efforts as a songwriter were soul. Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, Wilson Pickett, Gladys Knight, James Brown, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye and Fontella Bass are just a few of the names that come to mind as the God's of soul and Motown.

  Rory Block

  Country, Knights, Names

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• So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

  Cecily von Ziegesar

  Thinking, Should, Chuck

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• So for all that we might speak words in each other's vicinity, this could never develop into anything that could be called a conversation. It was as though we were speaking in different languages. If the Dalai Lama were on his deathbed and the jazz musician Eric Dolphy were to try to explain to him the importance of choosing one's engine oil in accordance with changes in the sound of the bass clarinet, that exchange might have been more worthwhile and effective than my conversations with Noboru Wataya.

  Haruki Murakami

  Oil, Trying, Musician

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle”, p.78, Random House

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