Bass Quotes - Page 5

No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

I applied to Uncyclopedia Bassists, and was accepted!!

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

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.

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party.

I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.

I got heavily into the drum-and-bass scene, which is really wicked.

Rather than spend millions getting film stars, I am quite happy to be brand ambassador myself.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

I might be an ambassador.

Occasionally, when I run into a great bass backstage at a festival I'll play a few notes on the low E string, just to feel the instrument vibrate against my belly.

In life's orchestra, the bike is the double bass. Hard to forget it

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

I tried to play bass in a punk band once, and it was an absolute disaster. I can’t play anything. I don’t know what it is.

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself.

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

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.

It's really important for the bass and the drums to somehow blend.

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

I remember that the bass was turned up slightly more on the mix from last week, and I thought that was good - or whatever. Like, there were some little things in there that he said that he came to, like, really enjoy my opinion or at least, like, my little comments on the songs. So I was kind of destined to probably be a studio rat.

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

I grew up going to the store, seeing the products [of L'Oréal ], seeing the commercials and the ambassadors. I never in a million years thought I'd be associated with them.

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

It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.