Bass Quotes

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

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.

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.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

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.

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

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

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.

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.