Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Whitehurst

I finally talked my dad into buying a bass boat.

He told me Lou might be looking for a bass player.

Fred Durst

I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.

He's still a little young for bass fishing, so I wanted to teach him the ropes and trout offer a little more action.

Mike was a great bass player. But we had no idea what he was destined for, in all honesty. He was just a blues enthusiast who was in our circle of musician friends in San Diego.

Andy Rourke

My very first job was selling pop off the back of a wagon. Then I went to work in a timber yard to save up for my bass amp and joined The Smiths.

John Entwistle

That was the producer who produced a couple of my solo albums. He produced my second, third and fourth solo albums. It was his project and I just joined him on it. I sang on one and played bass on another one.

Holly Johnson

I was never that into being a bass player in a group. I did it for the experience and was more interested in writing the lyrics for that band.

My biggest stringer and my biggest bass (12 pounds) have come out of Lake Toho. And when you have those past experiences, it helps you out a lot. The Classic's been good to me, and I fully expect to win.

Skrillex

My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well.

Look closely, and you can see where the grooves of a record widen, indicating a sparseness that can only be a bass solo, or grow denser to accommodate a cresting density of sound.

Kevin VanDam

I won FLW Angler of the Year, and BASS Angler of the year three times, but there is no comparison to winning a Classic. It is kind of sad, because winning Angler of the Year is harder than winning a Classic. But it is just like football; the Super Bowl is the deal.

Rande Gerber

You can feel the bass and the energy as you get closer and closer to the club.

Warren Haynes

We realized 160 minutes is a lot to digest, even for a hard-core fan. We were also waiting on some bass players.

Jenny Lewis

I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

Stacey King

I certainly feel that it is either the most elite team, or at least one of the most elite teams, in bass fishing.

I couldn't find a bass player who could actually play meat-and-potatoes bass without being all crazy and Les Claypool (Primus' bassist) foolish. I decided to find another guitar player, so I could become a bass player,

How far the white bass run up the Sabine is dependent on the river flow. It is not going to keep them from spawning. A lot of people may not know that they will spawn in the lake on wind-blown points. It is going to impact angler success.

I am more of a solo bass player and he needed somebody who would keep the role.

Brendon Urie

I'm a pretty good drummer. I'm pretty good at guitar, bass and piano. I can play accordion; I'm not virtuoso. I've played cello before. My sister played it, and I know how to play it, but I'm not the best. Violin is kind of the same thing.

Bat for Lashes

I usually speak with all my drummers so that I write my songs with them in mind, and we'll have bass sounds, choir sounds, and then you can multi-task with all these orchestral sounds. Through the magic medium of technology, I can play all kinds of sounds - double bass and stuff.

David Foster

When I produce a record, I roll up my sleeves; I'm not one of those passive guys. I really get in there and make sure every note is measured. I tell the bass player, 'You have to play it like this,' or I tell the drummer, 'It's got to be like this.'

Nate Ruess

I was in a really crummy pop-punk band. I think we did a whole bunch of Blink-182 covers, and we were on the fringe of losers and jocks. So we invited all the cool kids to come watch us play in our bass player's brother's bedroom. And it was terrible, but everyone thought we were so cool.

Nate Ruess

I picked up 'The Hunger Games' thinking it was written at my regressed reading level. I've spent hours reading it, and I'm not even halfway through. Our bass player, whose name is also Nate, ended up reading all three novels and loved them.

Luka Sulic

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

Nick Mason

I've always liked a very dry snare and, like everyone else, a very dry bass drum.

Neil Innes

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

Bonnie Tyler

I never forget the first time I was on 'Top of the Pops', my bass player said: 'You've made it!' I did used to think, when I was younger, that I'd be on there one day.

Tom Jenkinson

I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar.

Charlie Worsham

You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to teach piano lessons when she was younger. So I can play some piano, play a little drums, and fake the bass - but banjo, mandolin, and guitar are my thing.

Gerald Veasley

We are now part of a bass community. You came here today by yourself, now you're part of a family, a network. The bass circle works as a metaphor for that.

Wade in the Water. It has different bass lines, reminiscent of what you might hear in a dance club.

Paul Simonon

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.