Bass Quotes

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Sometimes when an idea flashes, you distrust it because it seems too easy. You qualify it with all kinds of evasive phrases because you’re timid about it. But often, this turns out to be the best idea of all.

Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

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

There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me.

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know

I always got great respect as a bass player.

Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

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.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

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

You can't spell bass without ass

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.

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.

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

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

With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.

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

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

A lot of modern amps and preamps sound great when you're jamming by yourself, but don't hold up in a band situation. The sound isn't dense enough, and the lows and highs tend to get soaked up by the bass and cymbals.

I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era.

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

I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.

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

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

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.

The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.