Bass Quotes - Page 2

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

When employees are happy, they are your very best ambassadors.

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

He who plays advisor is no longer ambassador.

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

Travelers are the greatest ambassadors of tolerance.

Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait.

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

When I came into Metallica, I had to do justice to Cliff's work, but I also had to put my own signature on it. No one could be Cliff Burton; Cliff Burton was the Jimi Hendrix of bass.

I feel quite proud to be an ambassador for women who realize that being fit is better than being skinny.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon.

There's a lot of particularly good things going on in my life at the moment. It's the fact that I get to be an ambassador for the concept of modernity. I can be creative and useful. And I don't have to grow up.

Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.

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

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.

If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music.

I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should.

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

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.

Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'

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

A good bassist determines the direction of any band.

I never want to position myself where I seem like an ambassador of anti-racism. I am fortunate enough to say that I've never experienced extreme amounts of racism, but a lot of my friends do.