Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Mason

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

Neil Innes

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

Bonnie Tyler

I never forget the first time I was on 'Top of the Pops', my bass player said: 'You've made it!' I did used to think, when I was younger, that I'd be on there one day.

Nate Ruess

I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

Nate Ruess

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.

Luka Sulic

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

Tom Jenkinson

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

Nikki Sixx

I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.'

Chris Squire

The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.

Colin Hanks

I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.

George Shearing

Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.

Flea

Later in high school, I met Hillel Slovak, who was the original guitar player of the Chili Peppers, and we became really close. We had a band, and we didn't like the bass player, so I started playing bass, and I got a bass two weeks later.

Glenn Hughes

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.

Bjork

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to figure out how to make a bass line that was a pendulum - like, gravity would control it, and then you could make it play different notes.

FKA twigs

I love my music, so I want to produce, write, and serve my music. I've had to learn about EQ frequencies and programming and space and clutter and how to be a better piano or bass player - everything.

Penn Jillette

You have networks for people who bass fish, and another for people who trout fish.

Charlie Worsham

You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to teach piano lessons when she was younger. So I can play some piano, play a little drums, and fake the bass - but banjo, mandolin, and guitar are my thing.

Holly Johnson

I was never that into being a bass player in a group. I did it for the experience and was more interested in writing the lyrics for that band.

My biggest stringer and my biggest bass (12 pounds) have come out of Lake Toho. And when you have those past experiences, it helps you out a lot. The Classic's been good to me, and I fully expect to win.

Skrillex

My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well.

Rande Gerber

You can feel the bass and the energy as you get closer and closer to the club.

Wade in the Water. It has different bass lines, reminiscent of what you might hear in a dance club.

Paul Simonon

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

Paul Shaffer

I want to learn to sight-read music. And to play the bass pedals on the organ. Those are my only ambitions.

Gerald Veasley

We are now part of a bass community. You came here today by yourself, now you're part of a family, a network. The bass circle works as a metaphor for that.

Andy Rourke

My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

Harmony Korine

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

Warren Haynes

We realized 160 minutes is a lot to digest, even for a hard-core fan. We were also waiting on some bass players.

We designed Berkley Big Game line to handle any extreme -- and today's record-setting catch is proof-positive that it performs when it matters most. We're delighted Berkley Big Game helped set the big bass record in the world's most prestigious fishing tournament.

There is no doubt that if you are a bass fisherman, you will learn a few tricks,

Dan Aykroyd

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

Eberhard Weber

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.