Bass Players Quotes

It's bad enough when people I know fuck with my life, but when pretentious bass players interfere with my destiny, then I really get pissed. ~ Tiffanie DeBartolo

A lot of other bass players have told me I'm the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he's playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment. ~ Glenn Hughes

One thing people always ask me is 'How do you play outside?' ... I have no idea how to teach that, but when I was discussing this with our bass player Jesse Murphy, he said 'tell them to go cliff diving' ... In other words, when you're jamming, you have to take risks if you want to find new sounds ... ~ John Scofield

When The Murderdolls started it was a really cool thing, especially for me because I had never done anything on that scale before. Even for our drummer and bass player it was their first really big band. ~ Wednesday 13

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot. ~ Mayer Hawthorne

I describe things in terms of body movements. I dance a bit to describe what sort of movement it ought to make, and that's a good way of talking to musicians. Particularly bass players. ~ Brian Eno

Bass players have bigger instruments." Charlie's slow grin curled her toes and he added, "We also do it deeper. ~ Rachel Harris

Eliminating the piano means that I've always worked closer with the bass than most players. ~ Gerry Mulligan

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. ~ Nate Ruess

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

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it. ~ Stanley Clarke

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

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals. ~ Diplo

Women and rhythm-section first!? ~ Jaco Pastorius

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it. ~ Miroslav Vitous

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. ~ Lou Gramm

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead. ~ David Amram

While it's a great indulgence, it's also very interesting to have three bass players on the same track. ~ Bryan Ferry

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. ~ Bryan Adams

My heroes are guys like Frank Capra and Elia Kazan and Coen brothers and Terry Gilliam, more so than a lot of bass players at this point in my life. So I've always been an old-film nut and have very much enjoyed doing videos over the years. ~ Les Claypool

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. ~ Scott Weiland

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too. ~ Rick Danko

There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing. ~ Graham Coxon

Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I've always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio. ~ Bill Wyman

Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know ~ Jack Bruce

I really am good," he admits arrogantly.
"I told you, dude. You're really good. When you get older, you're going to be one of the best bass players I've ever seen."
"I know," he nods, agreeing wholeheartedly. ~ A.M. Madden

For my money, Ray Brown is the greatest living bass player. Every great thing that's happened on bass since Ray Brown
all of us point back to him. That's where it started, you know. Ray Brown is definitely a walking master, and to get to play with him is obviously an opportunity that no one should ever pass up. ~ Christian McBride

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

I was never much of a bass player. ~ Ryan Adams

I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver. ~ Chely Wright

It's really easy to play harmonics, anyone can do it. It's another thing to be able to swing, to make to make a band swing, to create a groove. Harmonics ain't everything. Being able to play harmonics certainly does not make you a good bass player. Cleverness is no substitute for true awareness. ~ Jaco Pastorius

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

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands. ~ Adam Jones

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

Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could. ~ Peter Hook

I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally. ~ Ken Burns

The ultimate guitar players can play every scale in the book. ~ Dick Dale

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent. ~ Saul Bass

Why is it that the choice among churches always seems to be the choice between intelligence on ice and ignorance on fire? ~ Diana Butler Bass

A lot of players might be tired, but I feel nice and sharp. ~ Robbie Keane

When you do what you're supposed to do and don't complain much, I think the fans, media, players and front office appreciate and respect that. ~ Torii Hunter

Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad. ~ Nico Muhly

I should be a coach, because when my players win, I win. But when my players lose, what a bunch of losers and hey, don't blame me, because I wasn't playing. ~ Jarod Kintz

The Internet is the stained glass picture of the 21st century. ~ Diana Butler Bass

This time last year I would have said Federer would beat Sampras's record. Now I'm not so sure. His aura has gone. He's not as dominant as he was, and since I beat him in Australia he's looked frustrated. Players are beginning to challenge him now, especially myself and Rafa. He's got 12 Grand Slams to his name and maybe he will beat Sampras, but now I'm here it will be tough for him. ~ Novak Djokovic

Players have responsibilities, because, whether they like it or not, they are public figures. They have to be aware that the people who come to the ground spend fortunes in relation to what they earn. ~ Gerard Houllier

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story. ~ Casey Stengel

I got to play with some of the best players in the game, from Victor Martinez and Travis Hafner and Grady Sizemore in Cleveland, to here with Ryan Howard, Chase Utley, Cole Hamels. Obviously, to Seattle with Ichiro and Felix Hernandez, and then to Texas with Josh Hamilton, Ian Kinsler, Mike Young. It was a great experience. Without being traded I never could have gotten to do any of that.? ~ Cliff Lee

You want to win things and I am at a club where we have the players to do that. ~ Jamie Redknapp

I was determined to make Renaissance Man Food Services and Herschel's Famous 34 major players in a very tough industry. ~ Herschel Walker

We're all players and musicians and we sure all get along good. We just clicked right off the bat. We started playing and then we almost immediately started recording. ~ Krist Novoselic

Within a couple of weeks of starting the Ph.D. program, though, she discovered that she'd booked passage on a sinking ship. There aren't any jobs, the other students informed her; the profession's glutted with tenured old men who won't step aside for the next generation. While the university's busy exploiting you for cheap labor, you somehow have to produce a boring thesis that no one will read, and find someone willing to publish it as a book. And then, if you're unsually talented and extraordinarily lucky, you just might be able to secure a one-year, nonrenewable appointment teaching remedial composition to football players in Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the Internet's booming, and the kids we gave C pluses to are waltzing out of college and getting rich on stock options while we bust our asses for a pathetic stipend that doesn't even cover the rent. ~ Tom Perrotta

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. ~ Billy Sheehan

I'm a fair manager, put it that way. I like to be fair with the players, but there's a time for discipline. ~ Don Baylor

In 1996, the players at the VSB tournament in Amsterdam sent me a card for my wedding with this dedication, 'Anand congrats on your wedding. You were a great player, now be ready to lose 50 points'. ~ Viswanathan Anand

The emphasis on winning is preventing kids from learning how to pass, which is the skill they ultimately need at the highest levels. The proposed solution is for top youth players to play fewer games. ~ Po Bronson

It was the eldritch scurrying of those fiend-born rats, always questing for new horrors, and determined to lead me on even unto those grinning caverns of earth's centre where Nyarlathotep, the mad faceless god, howls blindly in the darkness to the piping of two amorphous idiot flute-players. ~ H.P. Lovecraft

Try to reach for a simple, visual phrase that tells you what the picture is all about and evokes the essence of the story ~ Saul Bass

The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing that she believed in, that was so important that she would do it regardless of the player. And I think that a lot of players expected that she would bend herself to do whatever they wanted because they've done the romance, gotten her approval up, and of course she would just sort of follow their destiny. But Morrigan has her own destiny. ~ David Gaider

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can't worry about that. ~ Bill Parcells

Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture. ~ Hayden Fry

Let me get this straight. The owners are about to shut down baseball when it's more prosperous than it's even been, and the players are the ones who have to get their urine tested? ~ Ron Darling

We measure areas of performance that are often ignored: jumping in pursuit of every rebound even if you don't get it, swatting at every pass, diving for loose balls, letting someone smash into you in order to draw the foul. These 'effort' statistics are also stored on computer. Effort is what ultimately separates journeyman players from impact players. Knowing how well a player executes all these little things is the key to unlocking career-best performances. ~ Pat Riley

More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes. ~ Jeffrey Kluger

People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me. ~ Noel Gallagher

FORGET you? How could I EVER forget you? Sure, I only remember the last nine minutes, but I know a BESTEST friend when I see one!
"Bestest what?", squeaked Stitch Head.
"Oh, totally! BETEST friends forever! I knew we would be from the moment just after you said you weren't going to EAT me. ~ Guy Bass

Jobs are hard to come by, so players are extremely motivated to do whatever it takes to keep their job. ~ Brendan Daly

I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there. Can't get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment - you should never have that moment. You're always trying to get better. ~ Tiger Woods

What's more important is that the monsters are controllable by the players.Pikachu is like the name of the species. But each player can name their own Pikachu. So kids can relate to it more. They get more attached to them that way. ~ Satoshi Tajiri

Yes. And yes, the carpet matches the drapes. I've only been asked that like three dozen times by hockey players, so don't consider yourself original. ~ Brenda Rothert

The golfer has more enemies than any other athlete. He has fourteen clubs in his bag, all of them different; 18 holoes to play, all of them different, every week; and all around him is sand, trees, grass, water, wind and 143 other players. In addition, the game is 50 percent mental, so his biggest enemy is himself. ~ Dan Jenkins

I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon. ~ Casey Stengel

As the game gets bigger for the fans it gets bigger for the players. ~ Michael Strahan

Life is like a game, there could be many players. If you don't play with them, they'll play with you. ~ Adolf Hitler