Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lester Holt

Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What's important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion - something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I'm not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I'm just Lester Holt who likes music.

Pianists have the Van Cliburn competition and guitarists have a number of contests, as well, but the electric bass is such a young instrument, relatively speaking, that this sort of thing just hasn't happened until now. Victor and I have been talking about this for a couple of years because we go around the world and we bump in to people who just blow us away. They've been practicing for years on this stuff that nobody's ever heard. They might be well-known players or just hiding out in a practice room working on techniques we don't even known about.

I like the tackle side a little more than the groceries. Fishing tackle doesn't go bad. I get a lot of fishermen coming in here. Some of them are going to Millerton, but most are going to Eastman and Hensley to catch some bass or trout.

Then we played Fresno State and had a close 4-2 with them. Stephen Bass deserves a great deal of credit for that match.

Giorgio Moroder

'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.

That means we had 14 bass over 18 inches every hour.

Leo Fender

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

Karen O

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

John Entwistle

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.

Geezer Butler

I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started

The kill made all the bass sick, but only killed the weak.

Chris Squire

The flukey part of it is, back in the early days, I had that guitar decorated with all kinds of crap wallpaper, 'Flower Power' - then that got all shaved off. And during the course of cleaning the bass up again, some of the wood got shaved down, and it probably became a lighter body than the stock factory model.

What happens when the water gets down to the low 40 s is the bass suspend off the points and in the standing trees. That's been the pattern for years.

Once you feed train bass, they stay on it. They might not like the food, but they are so competitive that they'll eat it to keep another bass from getting it.

I've caught more bass here in two days than I've caught in five years in San Diego.

I've been fishing as a pro for 25 years, and never in my life have I had so much excitement. It's been such a roller coaster this last year. I've been way down, and I've been as high as you can get. This last year was one of the best I ever had. I won that big FLW tournament last year, finished in the top 10 in BASS and in the top 10 at FLW.

The waters on the west side are still not quite right yet and few reports are coming in. As the waters fall, bass fishing should get better at Belle River first.

This is one of the best white bass-catching inventions ever made. That's a fact. When the white bass run starts, not a one of them will be safe.

There is no doubt that if you are a bass fisherman, you will learn a few tricks,

Herbie Hancock

Another convention is that the drummer and bass player are timekeepers, but there's no reason they have to be bound to that.

Florida bass react more to cold fronts than their northern cousins. They just shut down. When the Punch Craw comes through a floating mat, it goes by the bass in a hurry. They don't have time to think about it, so they just eat it.

Al Jarreau

I tour a lot and interview a lot. I'm on the Internet and doing stuff. I go out and promote. I've got a bass drum and a sandwich sign and a washboard. You just have to shout louder and louder that you're still alive.

Oscar Isaac

I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player.

Adam Dunn

To win a gold bracelet in Vegas at the World Series of Poker. Or to become a professional bass fisherman.

Tim Healy

We are going to focus on uses that are compatible with Bass Pro.

The records were bound to fall. The Classic was moved from a summertime event to springtime in Central Florida where you are bound to find large bass in various phases of the spawning cycle.

Andy Rourke

When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'

Jeff Ross

We are trying to make it a trophy bass lake ... a place you can go and catch the fish of a lifetime.

Charlie Wilson

We're very concerned. I don't think we're the problem. We want (the ramp and its availability for bass fishing) to be here for our kids and their kids. I'm heartbroken that they're going to close that ramp .... It's a very nice lake, and it's a shame what's happening.

Tom Jenkinson

There's a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. It's a new approach to it.

Dave Holland

I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

Harmony Korine

I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.

Timbaland

I don't know nothing about no jungle and bass.