Bass Quotes - Page 6

When drum'n'bass happened, when the two-step/garage thing happened, there was a chart smash every week; it operated on the underground and the pinnacle of pop mainstream at the same time.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit.

Why employ intelligent and highly paid ambassadors and then go and do their work for them? You don't buy a canary and sing yourself.

Simon had been all lined up and he’d managed to throw away the best girl he’d ever meet. “What a dumbass,” Beck muttered. “No way I’d have done that.

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

More basses, because you are so far away.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

It's easy to be a spokesman and ambassador for a great organization like the NBA. I thank Commissioner David Stern for putting that trust in me to serve the NBA around the globe.

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

I am an education ambassador, mainly working with schools.

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

I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers.

It's not art, it's science.

An ambassador should study the welfare of his country, and not spend his time in feasting and riot.

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass. It was like, back there!

If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

I've been a brand ambassador for Nigeria since I was age 11. Growing up in the U.K., I've had to defend Nigeria. and when I was 40, I finally woke up and decided to do something, and that's how the talk show came about.

Even though I smoke, just because I'm a dumbass doesn't mean anyone else has to be.

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

When I served as US Ambassador to NATO in the 1970s, the center of gravity in Europe was France and Germany.