If you didn't read these Bass Quotes the first time around, now's your chance to hear what the players are saying.
“When I usually go to my studio to work, I start with something that is going to take two minutes just to put some idea down and the next thing I know, ten hours have gone by and my family is screaming at me because they want me to come up to have dinner with them.”
Geddy Lee - Bassist
“With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can’t scale the equipment down too far."
John Entwistle - Bassist
“You don’t burn out from going too fast. You burn out from going too slow and getting bored.”
Cliff Burton - Bassist
"It's been my experience that great musicians become great not because they want to beat other musicians in popularity contests, but because they want to satisfy their own aesthetic standards. I've also found that those motivated primarily by competition tend to limit themselves artistically - and they tend to become obnoxious."
David Hungate - Bassist
"Whatever the situation or level you're playing at, my feeling is you've got to be a strong player. Bass is a strong instrument; you can't allow yourself to play it weakly, with no authority. You've got to play with an attitude, because everybody's listening to the bass - and I dare anyone to challenge me on that..."
Chuck Rainey - Bassist
"Funk to me is where I came from; it's the way I grew up. It's even deeper than the music. It's the way we communicated; actually the way we lived. It's like ten people in a small room and it's 110 degrees outside and there's no air conditioner. It's when the bill collector comes and you don't have any money to pay. It's when you've had as much as you can take and you can't take no more. What do you do? Funk it. That's when you grow into the funk.
Bootsy Collins - Bassist
"In the bathroom, people look at the tile—I look at the grout! That’s the way I relate to the bass, too. I don’t try to be too definitive. It’s funny about the bass. I see a guy with a righteous bassline and I wanna meet him—‘I really like that bassline!’ And I find out the guy’s been playing two months because his buddy made him! That’s how righteous it is! You can write good basslines when you’re just starting. It’s not the most notes—it’s the right notes!"
Mike Watt - Bassist
"I never heard him play a note he didn't mean..."
Dave Pomeroy on the late Roy Huskey, Jr. - Bassist
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