Quotes About Music

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

I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.

I love that people can feel the bass in their body.

In the studio, we sometimes will add bass or some other stuff, like more layers of the same guitar part that's already there, but ultimately, the sound is about guitar and drums.

I started taking the bass more seriously when I heard Jaco Pastorius.

Today, somewhere in America, there's a kid who's got a laptop and a guitar and a couple of his friends he's putting together to play drums and bass, who's gonna change the way we say things, the way that we dress, the way we view things, the music we hear, everything.

More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.

The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.

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

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

I learned to MC over drum 'n' bass music.

I was a big Drum and Bass junkie when I grew up.

Just no gentrified drum and bass music anymore, please! It's not good for your health.

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

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.

Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird.

I don't think anyone would bat an eye if I wrote a song.

I need music while taking a bath. I need it in the car.

Bath was hardly known for its rock'n roll. We weren't part of the London scene or the New Romantics or any of that.

I am a terrible singer. At best I am a bathroom singer.

I want people to go deep into my music like Baton Rouge does.

You know, we never really know what we're going to write next. Which is part of the excitement when we go in and do a new album. No battle plan, we just go in and do it and what comes out, comes out.

I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.

My dad and I would perform around the Bay Area where I'm from in California together, and I also did talent shows growing up, I loved it.