Bass Quotes

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.

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

To be a great band it's like you have that telepathy. You know when the bass player's in back of you without even looking. You know when your guitar player's coming up to you to lean up to you and sing into your microphone. You just know these things. You feel it. You feel the energy of it.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

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.

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

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

There's individual turntable setups devoted to piano, bass, drums and a set for soloing as well. We like to try and explore the gamut of what a turntable can do.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

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

I play guitar, piano, bass and percussion.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

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

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

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

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.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go.

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

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

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

In general, we like to play as a band - guitar, piano, and voice. We also tour with a bass player, a drummer, and somebody who plays keyboard and guitar. We try to play all of our parts and flesh it out to get a lush sound, while also keeping the energy of a three-piece punk act. We want to be the best of all possible worlds.

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble.

Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow.

We decided to do some of Merle's things with modern instrumentation. We used a flute, a bass clarinet, a trumpet, a clarinet, drums, a guitar, vibes and a piano.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.