Bass Quotes - Page 7

• I started playing the bass because nobody else would play the bass, and then I got bumped up into singing because no one else really wanted to sing. So I learned how to sing and I wrote the songs, so I tended to get the most attention.

  Tom Petty

  Song, Play, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.

  Mark Hall

  Strong, Bait, Littles

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• I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

  Father, Students, Harm

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• I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!

  Kristin Davis

  Beer, Years, Ale

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• I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

  Kid Cudi

  Hate, Play, Want

  "All The Right Moves". Interview with Joe La Puma, www.complex.com. June, 2015.

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• I was never much of a bass player.

  Ryan Adams

  Player, Bass Players

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 23, 2007.

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• My favorite moments are when the bass falls in the pocket with the drums, the guitar is on top just slicing it, and the melody is scraping across like a sidewinder shattering through the monitor. It's just, ahhh, I love it! That's the jones, the hit, the buzz right there. It gets me off.

  Nikki Sixx

  Fall, Guitar, Pockets

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• Art is my 'solo career' if you like. Musically, as a bass player, I depend on other musicians to play, whereas, with painting, I'm on my own. I find it quite easy to switch heads and I enjoy both the mayhem of being on tour and the serenity of being alone in my art studio.

  Horace Panter

  Art, Player, Careers

  Source: louderthanwar.com

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• I love a little distortion across the bass; I think it kind of adds something to the sound of the band when the bass is a little overdriven.

  Nikki Sixx

  Thinking, Sound, Add

  Source: forbassplayersonly.com

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• Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!

  Glenn Hughes

  Running, Practice, Three

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• Sometimes I highjack memories. Sometimes I switch them around. Sometimes they're just in the background, like some little bass note. Those things have carried me through, especially when I first started writing. They're still there, but more in the distance these days.

  Paul Beatty

  Memories, Distance, Writing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave. Miami is special for that. It's a city where you don't know if it's more a part of the US, or of the Caribbean, or of Latin America, or of Europe.

  Pitbull

  Hip Hop, House, Hips

  "Pitbull: 'I would be hypocritical to perform there'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2011.

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• I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Thinking, Play, Parliament

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Guitar, Lines

  Source: wrvo.org

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• I love rainy and bad-weather days because this type of weather gives me a mental advantage, especially when I'm fishing in a tournament. When the weather is inclement, most fishermen start thinking of reasons why they can't catch bass. But, because I fish so often in bad weather, I'm thinking of all the reasons I can catch bass in bad weather conditions.

  Gary A. Klein

  Thinking, Fishing, Weather

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• If you mess around with jazz, you better have a good drummer and a good bass player.

  Gunther Schuller

  Player, Jazz, Drummer

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Instead of thinking in terms of chords, I think of voice-leading; that is, melody line and bass line, and where the bass line goes. If you do that, you'll have the right chord. [These voices] will give you some alternatives, and you can play those different alternatives to hear which one suits your ear. Keep the bass line moving so you don't stay in one spot: if you have an interesting bass line and you roll it against the melody, the chords are going to come out right.

  Paul Simon

  Moving, Thinking, Play

  "Paul Simon's Workshop at the Guitar Study Center" by Richard Albero and Fred Styles, Guitar Player, April 1975.

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• Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.

  Joshua Roman

  Guitar, Long, Age

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• There's always going to be the cooler-clubbers who are going to harvest a lot of fish, but I think the hard-core bass fishermen release just about everything they catch these days. Years ago, I think people were willing to release smaller fish, but now I think they're willing to release them all, and that's the important part.

  Philip K. Chapman

  Thinking, Years, People

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• I'd like to play bass like Bootsy Collins. I'm serious. That would be my dream.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Dream, Play, Would Be

  "Anthony Bourdain The ‘Parts Unknown’ Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, newsblaze.com. January 9, 2015.

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• I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

  Jessica Pare

  Player, Singers, Lips

  "Q&A – Jessica Paré (Megan Draper)". Interview with Veronica Hsieh, www.amc.com. March 2012.

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• My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

  Mayer Hawthorne

  Dad, Player, Practice

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• A lot of musicians like to do the bass and the drums with analog and get that tape distortion that's really beautiful. As far as the digital world goes - it's all going to end up there anyway, but when you hear vinyl it does a different thing to you. Nowadays, people do CDs and then vinyl so it's everything goes; it's a such a beautiful world.

  David Lynch

  Beautiful, Cds, People

  "David Lynch Talks New Music Projects". Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. December 2, 2010.

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• I always think of a voice as an instrument, whether a voice is a trumpet, or violin, or bass. You know what I mean? A horn or wind instrument versus a string instrument. Horn instruments are definitely more toward jazz.

  Debbie Harry

  Mean, Thinking, Wind

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. July 9, 2007.

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• Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level. Turn up the bass 'til it's up in your face level.

  Kanye West

  Rapper, Levels, Taste

  "EXCLUSIVE: We take you inside what Kanye West's first session with his New York City psychiatrist could be like!". Interview with Dr. Watts di Matta, www.nydailynews.com. December 13, 2016.

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