Bass Quotes - Page 9

• I'm not a musician, I just play bass.

  Bill Wyman

  Play, Musician

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• I play a bunch of instruments, like piano, drums, guitar and bass. And the kazoo every now and then. I'm trying to learn how to play the trumpet and the saxophone. That's what I'm learning how to play.

  Mac Miller

  Guitar, Play, Piano

  Source: hiphopdx.com

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• I just recorded in studios, you know, people pressed the buttons for me. So I just started recording the bass lines and guitar parts with my voice, covering classical pieces, or just making up melodies so I could learn how to use it.

  Petra Haden

  Guitar, Voice, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The first song I wrote was "Look Both Ways Before You Cross" from Imaginaryland. I started the song by singing a bass line, "hoo hoo hoo hoo."

  Petra Haden

  Song, Singing, Looks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm always scouring the universe for great old instruments from the '50s and early '60s. That's really, for me, the golden age of basses, when they had just been invented within 10 years of that period and they had just started to come into their own, especially the old Fender jazz basses and old Rickenbackers and Gibsons. I'm always on the lookout. It's fun.

  Geddy Lee

  Fun, Years, Age

  "Geddy Lee on 40 years of Rush". Interview with Becca James, www.avclub.com. December 4, 2015.

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• I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's interesting calling it "beat music". That's quite true, the rhythm is up to the fore, it's got a slap bass, and it's got "funk" in the title. But I think there's always a level of irony when we did those kind of things.

  Stephen Mallinder

  Thinking, Interesting, Titles

  Source: www.artdesigncafe.com

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• Ridley Pearson also plays bass guitar and sings with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a band made up of such successful authors as Amy Tan, Stephen King, and Dave Barry-a band that, according to Barry, "plays music as well as Metallica writes novels".

  Otto Penzler

  Kings, Writing, Successful

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• I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.

  Josh Young

  Growing Up, Way, Firsts

  "THE LEADING MEN: Josh Young and Paul Nolan, Jesus Christ Superstar's Judas and Jesus". Interview with Michael Gioia, www.playbill.com. March 22, 2012.

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• Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Self, Arguing, Harmony

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• I always tell girls who say they want to start a band but don't have any talent, well, neither do I. I mean, I can carry a tune, but anyone who picks up a bass can figure it out. You don't have to have magic unicorn powers. You work at it, and you get better. It's like anything- You sit there and do it every day, and eventually you get good at it.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Mean, Magic

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.

  John Densmore

  Brother, Moving, Player

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• I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.

  Keanu Reeves

  Song, Writing, Beer

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• The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.

  Waylon Jennings

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Hollies

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• I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

  John Darnielle

  Couple, Names, Ideas

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown -- all of us point back to him. That's where it started, you know. Ray Brown is definitely a walking master, and to get to play with him is obviously an opportunity that no one should ever pass up.

  Christian McBride

  Opportunity, Player, Rays

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• I found a guy in the Bronx who had an old plywood Kay bass that he wanted $75 for. He held it for me, and I gave him a few dollars every time I could scrape some extra money together. Meanwhile I borrowed or rented basses for jam sessions and paying jobs. It was a great thrill when I finally took possession of my Kay.

  Bill Crow

  Jobs, Guy, Together

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• My reading was good enough to play big-band charts, but I ran into trouble with Claude (Thornhill)'s theme song "Snowfall," which had a repeating bass line in D-flat that was very difficult for me to finger using my self-taught technique. I spent one morning figuring out an alternate fingering, and that started me on the way to learning a better use of the fingerboard.

  Bill Crow

  Song, Morning, Reading

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• I used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

  Christian Finnegan

  Play, Band, Good Enough

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• A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of bass and this idiot on the dock goes, Hey, y'all catch all them fish? Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign.

  Bill Engvall

  Giving Up, Couple, Fishing

  FaceBook post by Bill Engvall from Mar 14, 2013

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• I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].

  Theophilus London

  Song, Hip Hop, Littles

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Okay, I get kicked off the drums when I try and...the notes just keep coming at you and I'm like "Ahhhhh!" I can't do it. I have literally gotten booed off the stage way too many times. It's terrorizing. The rest of my band mates just are...they tell me to get off. I'm like, "I can play bass. Dunk, dunk, dunk, dunk."

  Alison Pill

  Play, Trying, Band

  Source: collider.com

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• I eat steamed sea bass and vegetables, and I have no sugar, and only drink soy milk.

  Angelina Jolie

  Vegetables, Sea, Soy Milk

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• Oh Beer! Oh Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung?

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Beer, Years, Names

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly Leaves”, p.170

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• When I listen to a record, or when I'm making a record, I listen to everything. I listen to the drums, the bass, the voice, the arrangement. I listen to the whole piece as an ensemble.

  Paul Weller

  Voice, Ensemble, Pieces

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The ukulele was the first of many instruments they had bought for me. They got me a guitar when I was eleven, which my son Morgan uses until this day. They paid for 3 years of guitar lessons; they bought me a bass fiddle, which I still play.

  Tony Visconti

  Son, Guitar, Years

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