Quotes and Sayings About Bass
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Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.
-- Afrika Bambaataa -
I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.
-- Ajay Naidu -
I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
Sometimes in films it's nice to have violins on either side, rather than on one side, so you've got more of a stereo picture with the violins. Sometimes it's good to have the basses in the middle.
-- Anne Dudley -
I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.
-- Ben Harper -
As far as current inspiration, I'm listenting to a lot of flamenco, because the techniques used for flamenco can be adapted to playing bass.
-- Billy Sheehan -
As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.
-- Brian Setzer -
I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.
-- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -
So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.
-- Cecily von Ziegesar -
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.
-- Charlie Haden -
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
-- Chely Wright -
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
-- Colin Greenwood -
Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
-- Colin Greenwood -
Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?
-- Dave Mustaine -
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
-- David Byrne -
I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.
-- Dee Dee Ramone -
Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.
-- Donald Dunn -
I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.
-- Dustin Diamond -
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
-- Eberhard Weber -
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
-- Eberhard Weber -
From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody Ive ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
-- Edgar Meyer -
No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.
-- Elizabeth Moon -
I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.
-- Fred Durst -
I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.
-- Garrett Hedlund -
If you put a Mars bar in one of Glenn Hughes’ hands and a bass in the other, he’ll choose the Mars bar.
-- Gary Moore -
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.
-- Geddy Lee
