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The press is like a big bass, you just stick a hook in their mouth and they'll take it.

Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.

I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music].

The absence of a bass player always makes things go faster and hit harder in the high-end range.

I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

I started at 14, and only played bass. I traded in my train set for a bass, and used my dad's amp.

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

Most rappers taste level ain't at my waist level. Turn up the bass 'til it's up in your face level.

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 used to play bass for a while and got to the point where I was good enough to be in a shitty band.

I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

I'm at the round table, where your seat at? Where your plate, where your lobster, where your sea bass?

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

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

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.

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

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

I'm an okay drummer, I'm an okay bass player, I'm an okay keyboardist, and I'm a quite good guitar player.

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.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt.

I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.

I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound.

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

Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation.

For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

Someone may offer you a freshly caught whole large fish, like a salmon or striped bass. Don't panic - take it!

There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all.

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.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen.

Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!

So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass.

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it.

I was charmed by a performance given by Crowded House at Toronto's Massey Hall where the bass player broke a string.

My first computer was an IBM Display Writer. With all its components, it was roughly the size of a bass fishing boat.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.

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