Bass Quotes - Page 6

• Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Keys, Guitar, Play

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• Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel. It moves you - the bass literally shakes you and rocks you from the inside. Music makes your soul feel amazing while you're performing it. It's not air, it's not wind, it's not anything like that. It's solid. It's thick. It's like summertime in New York.

  Bijou Phillips

  New York, Real, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In high school no guys wanted to be in a band with me unless I was going to play bass or play grindcore or be in a scream-o band, so it was fun to finally have that experience of having my songs backed by a drummer and a bassist who were just as excited about it as I was.

  Weyes Blood

  Song, Fun, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Violins waltzed. The Cellos and Basses provided accompaniment. The Violas mourned their fate, while the Concertmaster showed off. The Flutes did bird imitations…repeatedly, and the reed instruments had the good taste to admire my jacket. The Trumpets held a parade in honor of our great nation, while the French Horns waxed nostalgic about something or other. The Trombones had too much to drink. The Percussion beat the band, and the Tuba stayed home playing cards with his landlady, the Harp, taking sips of warm milk a blue little cup. “But the Composer is still dead.

  Daniel Handler

  Home, Fate, Blue

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• I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

  Mike Dirnt

  Doe, Reason, Guitarist

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• The secret to the sound is to drop the bass on the floor!

  Jaco Pastorius

  Secret, Sound

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• While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track.

  Bryan Ferry

  Player, Track, Interesting

  "Bryan Ferry Talks New Solo Album, Roxy Music". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. October 12, 2010.

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• Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

  Ikue Mori

  Girl, New York, Sunset

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• Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum

  Nicki Minaj

  Hurt, Fall, Fall Back

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• I couldn't make a real drum'n'bass or dubstep record to save my life. But I can be influenced by them in small ways.

  DJ Shadow

  Real, Dubstep, Records

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.

  Jimmy Page

  Mean, Play

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• When I'm listening to stuff on the computer or through a horrible little speaker on my phone, and then I hear the real version with the bass and everything, I sometimes don't like it as much. I definitely believe that any medium is viable in that respect.

  Kevin Shields

  Real, Believe, Phones

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of destined to probably be a studio rat.

  Mark Ronson

  Song, Littles, Rats

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• Boy you got my heartbeat runnin away
  Beatin like a drum & it's comin your way
  Cant you hear that
  Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass
  He got that super bass
  Boom badoom boom boom badoom boom bass
  Yeah that's that super bass

  Nicki Minaj

  Flirty, Boys, Way

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• I love when things bend out of shape. That's why I love drum and bass music.

  Kevin Shields

  Shapes, Drum And Bass

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The first song I wrote, in fifth grade, was totally ripped from Jeffrey Lewis. My aunt's boyfriend gave me bass lessons, and I played drums for a year in sixth grade. Around seventh grade, I got a guitar and forgot everything else.

  Frankie Cosmos

  Song, Aunt, Guitar

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Woo!" Emmett suddenly boomed in his deep bass. "Go Gators!" Jacob and Charlie jumped. The rest of us froze. Charlie recovered, then looked at Emmett over his shoulder. "Florida winning?" "Just scored the first touchdown," Emmett confirmed. He shot a look in my direction, wagging his eyebrows like a villain in vaudville. "'Bout time somebody scored around here.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Winning, Florida, Eyebrows

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• Scottish bagpipe has two tenors and one bass - three drone pipes - and then the one chanter. If you put bagpipes together, it creates such a fine sound.

  Yoshi Wada

  Two, Together, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do it some day. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight the bass. There is room here for my children to play and grow, and become good citizens-if the white man will let them.

  Medgar Evers

  Children, Fighting, Men

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• The sound universe is also spectacular around here. In the evenings there's a cricket orchestra with frogs providing the bass line. In the dead of night the dogs howl about how misunderstood they are. Before dawn the roosters for miles around announce how freaking cool it is to be roosters.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Night, Misunderstood

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• The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on his bass drum pedal, and we realized I could never play a drum set.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Play, Feet, Use

  Jordan Sonnenblick (2012). “After Ever After”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

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• I think that where it came from and the initial birth of it - it did come out of a jam at Bruno's studio, you know? He was playing drums. And Jeff Bhasker, who co-produced the record with us, is on synths, and I was playing bass.

  Mark Ronson

  Thinking, Jam, Records

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". weaa.org. April 16, 2015.

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• Haley and I would talk for hours about which member of 'N Sync we'd want to marry. After long deliberation, the answer was always J. C. Chasez. Joey Fatone's last name was going to be “Fat One” no matter how great he was, and even though they didn't know at their age that Lance Bass was gay outright, they sensed he'd make a better good friend and confidante. As for Justin Timberlake, well, JT was the coolest and hottest, but too flashy, so we couldn't trust him to be faithful. J. C. Chasez was the smart compromise.

  Mindy Kaling

  Smart, Gay, Good Friend

  Mindy Kaling (2011). “Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns)(Enhanced Edition)”, p.68, Crown/Archetype

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• Punk was perfect for lazy people, because anyone could do it--you didn't even need to know how to play your instrument, assuming you knew how to plug it in. There was really no difference between Sid Vicious and anyone in London who owned a bass.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Lazy People, Play, Differences

  Chuck Klosterman (2012). “Fargo Rock City: A Heavy Metal Odyssey In Rural North Dakota”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

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• The stillness of the calm is awful. His voice begins to grow strange and portentous. He feels it in him like something swallowed too big for the esophagus. It keeps up a sort of involuntary interior humming in him, like a live beetle. His cranium is a dome full of reverberations. The hollows of his very bones are as whispering galleries. He is afraid to speak loud, lest he be stunned; like the man in the bass drum.

  Herman Melville

  Men, Voice, Whispering

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.21

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