Quotes About Bass

We went to a small lake, Bass Lake. It was beautiful. It was perfectly still when we got there in the morning. The fog was lifting off the water. It was just magical. And we did catch some fish, 13 fish.

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

I'm not a 'practicing' musician anymore. I played bass and guitar. I still pick up a guitar around the house every once in awhile.

It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.

Classy.' Mara shines the flashlight on my chest as she climbs into the beached boat and sits across from me. 'It was either this ["Bass Man" sweatshirt] or "Master Baiter". Or freezing to death.

Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.

I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.

I just wanted to experiment with the bass, and my main influence from Jaco Pastorius inspired me to write music in a certain way.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar - and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that's what I was fascinated with in my teen years.

But when I was a teenager, I was in my room learning how to play bass by listening to Rush and the Sex Pistols. I wasn't reading Karl Marx.

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

I can't remember the first song I learned to play on bass, but the first song I learned to play on guitar was 'For Your Love' by the Yardbirds. That kind of was the beginning for me. I thought it was a great song and I loved the open chord progression at the beginning of that song.

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

I was a bass fisherman. I liked bass. That was my thing.

My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would take their spot.

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

When I was in grade school and high school, I did a lot of chorale singing. And the chorus would be tenor, bass, and alto and soprano.

'Take My Breath Away' had that interesting bass line, which I hear quite often. It had that terrible change of key, which Terri Nunn hated, but I loved.

When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub.

I have been a lifelong community activist and frankly did not dream of being in public office.