“A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.”
“I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.”
“I’m a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we’ve been in many bands.”
“I’m not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum ‘n’ bass record.”
“With guitar, bass and drums, you’ve got limited horizons.”
“Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation.”
“I always got great respect as a bass player.”
“I didn’t play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.”
“I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn’t done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.”
“I’m the quiet bass player.”
“Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.”
“My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves.”
“My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.”
“No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.”
“I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.”
“I like to practice on the bass, but I don’t do it as often as I should.”
“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.”
“Eliminating the piano means that I’ve always worked closer with the bass than most players.”
“I was a bass fisherman. I liked bass. That was my thing.”
“Ever since I picked up a bass, I’ve written songs.”
“I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.”
“The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.”
“That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.”
“I’ve got a Fender Concert amp from the ’60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.”
“Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.”
“I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!”
“I still don’t really feel like a bass player.”
“For KRS-One, I have a specific sound – sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.”
“Let there be bass.”
“Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that’s not what I call rock.”
“You can’t beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.”
“You can’t beat two guitars, bass, and drums.”
“I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I’ve named it Justine.”
“I’m doing bass trap; I’m doing EDM songs.”
“Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.”
“It’s really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.”
“Billy Sheehan has always been my number one favorite bass player of all time.”
“Vocally, I don’t think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.”
“As I said, when we needed to move over to rock’n’roll, Sam and Vernon couldn’t quite make the shift. So that’s when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.”
“On Ain’t No Telling I came up with the bass solo.”
“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.”
“I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.”
“I’m not a ‘practicing’ musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once in awhile.”
“I came from an era when we didn’t use electronic instruments. The bass wasn’t even amplified. The sound was the sound you got.”
“Bass guitar is the engine of the band.”
“I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.”
“I started taking the bass more seriously when I heard Jaco Pastorius.”
“From the rugged cliffs of Cape Liptrap peninsula jutting bravely into the swells of Bass Strait, the coast arcs southeast, hugging the waters of Waratah Bay with sweeping flat lines of fine pale sand and knotty scrub.”
“I play bass. I don’t have to go out there and screech.”
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