Ben Harper
Musician, Singer-Songwriter
"I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record."
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Bass
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Geddy Lee
Musician
"There was a time when fast playing and fretboard pyrotechnics on the bass were important to me and when I am recording a bass track, that is still very important to me."
Jack Bruce
Musician
"Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know"
Geezer Butler
Musician
"Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream."
Lou Reed
Musician, Songwriter
"You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums."
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"You can bet there's something fishy going on. I guess some large mouth bass left that lipstick on our shirt."
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"I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver."
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"I like to practice on the bass, but I don't do it as often as I should."
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"Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it."
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"Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these."
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"I was in George Martin's studio in Amsterdam and he was telling me, 'They come in here and it takes them three days to do a bass line.' Well I'm not from that era."
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"Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass."
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"I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont."
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"No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully."
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"Prince or commoner, tenor or bass, Painter or plumber or never-do-well, Do me a favor and shut your face - Poets alone should kiss and tell."
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"I never picked a bass up before Sabbath started"
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"I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it."
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"I will sing whatever I'm given to sing. Growing up, I would sing anything that I was given. If the choir needed a first tenor, I would sing first tenor. If they needed a bass, I would sing bass. Throughout my life, I just figured out ways to hit notes I needed to hit."
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"I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers."
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"I'm the quiet bass player."
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"I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned."
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"I'd love to play bass with Parliament Funkadelic, but I can't play bass, so I don't think that's going to happen."
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"I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name."
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"I played a little bit of everything. I got Ace of Bass, hip-hop songs, and dance hall [music]."
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"I was never much of a bass player."
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