Bass Quotes - Page 5

• Dubstep didn't invent bass, it just zoned in on it. Bass, to varying depths, is the foundation to most dance musics.

  Kode9

  Foundation, Depth, Dubstep

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The entire range of human experience is present in a church choir, including, but not restricted to jealousy, revenge, horror, pride, incompetence (the tenors have never been on the right note in the entire history of church choirs, and the basses have never been on the right page), wrath, lust and existential despair.

  Connie Willis

  Revenge, Pride, Wrath

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• If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Voice, Missing, Lines

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.344, Simon and Schuster

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• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Son, Guitar, Play

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• So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis

  Ellen Bass

  Healing, Writing, Responsibility

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• What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Voice, Shadow

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• I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

  Ellie Goulding

  Brother, Guitar, Passionate

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Cat, Daddy

  Langston Hughes (2004). “Vintage Hughes”, Vintage

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• My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.

  Nate Ruess

  Fashion, Girlfriend, Shoes

  "Fun's Nate Ruess on Black Tie and Band Fashion". Interview with Logan Hill, www.gq.com. May 29, 2012.

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• I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

  Evelyn Glennie

  Play, Sound, Orchestra

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• The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

  Mark Lanegan

  Player, Absence, Ends

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I know I love sexy surf guitars, I know I love loud snare. I love really simple repeating bass lines, and I love weird mad scientist keyboard sounds.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Sexy, Simple, Guitar

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• But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

  Krist Novoselic

  Player, Guitar, Dimes

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• There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Guitar, Two

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• Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Moving, Sea, Names

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• I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.

  Geddy Lee

  Song, Play, Guitar

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• My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.

  Nas

  Strong, Memories, Rap

  "Nas, Damian Marley Dig For Rap's African Roots". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. December 13, 2009.

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• I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Years, Get Better, My Friends

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• I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.

  Ty Burrell

  Fishing, Competition, Towns

  Source: collider.com

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• I have always been drawn to percussion and drums, to bass and piano, in music much more then I am drawn to the guitar and the other lead instruments.

  Dave Matthews

  Guitar, Piano, Instruments

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• Symmetria by the Uccello Project is a gorgeous, instrumental and largely unclassifiable record. Best thought of as 'cinematic', each of the tracks conjures up a range of emotions and images, taking the listener on a beautiful journey. The layers of basses, guitars and percussion ebb and flow, drawing on jazz, folk, blues and African music, blending all the elements into one lovely album. Recommended.

  Steve Lawson

  Beautiful, Journey, Guitar

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• I enjoy hunting, but if I had my choice to go deer hunting or bass fishing, I'd take bass fishing any day of the week. I enjoy both of them, but yeah, I'm a very outdoorsy guy.

  Larry the Cable Guy

  Hunting, Fishing, Choices

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"

  Lauryn Hill

  Boys, People, Lines

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• As time progressed, my songwriting developed out of my bass, because that's all I could do. I decided to take it as far as it could go and to use my skill as a tool.

  Stephen Bruner

  Skills, Use, Tools

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

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• The idea is: You played to 100 people this week in Europe, and then next week you can play to 200. It's an investment in that territory. But it can lose money because it's very expensive to go to Europe. You can't really just say, like, "Oh, we're gonna take our van and drive to California tomorrow." It's more like, "Oh, we have to fly to London and rent three guitar amps, a bass amp, drums; buy all these flights for four people; hire a driver."

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Ideas, California, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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