Bass Players Quotes
Bass players rarely get the spotlight, yet these quotes show how essential their role is to a band's sound and rhythm. From jazz musicians describing the instrument's demands to reflections on steady work in the industry, this collection honors a craft often heard more than seen.
Bass players quotes reveal a craft built on consistency and groove, a kind of quiet Great work that holds a band together.
So I am one of those bass players who can do something and musically, it was back then and now it is even more, if you noticed on the new album, I am not playing all the time anymore.
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...
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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...
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
Doing Quotes
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.
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.
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
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...
