Bass Player Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.
- Maurice Gibb

I don't really have a favorite bass player. I listen to a lot of bluegrass. But then again, I'm not a typical bluegrass bass player. I was really into the Grateful Dead, and I still am - I don't listen to them too much, but for me they are a big influence.
- Mike Gordon

The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.
- Mike Gordon

Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.
- Mike Gordon

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

I'm the quiet bass player.
- Colin Hanks

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

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.
- Neil Innes

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

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

I love playing with Jeff. That's something I never really say in the press, but he's my favorite bass player. I've played right next to him for 10 years.
- Mike Mccready

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
- Suzi Quatro

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

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

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.
- Miroslav Vitous

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.
- Miroslav Vitous

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.
- Miroslav Vitous

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

At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
- Eberhard Weber

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

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

I always got great respect as a bass player.
- Bill Wyman