Bass Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

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.

Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus. It was just bass and drums and guitar- we didn't make any records but we played a lot of different clubs in New York.

Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in - for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great - throughout the day, we'll also make judgment calls and adapt to what's available.

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.

I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.