Best Bass Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I was the bass player in the '70s all-female rock band the Runaways.”

“I love the sound of a Fender Rhodes or James Jamerson-style bass lines that are their own melody, and live drums and Moogs.”

“As I've gotten older I've got more bass in my voice but also because I don't talk very much during the day I've managed to keep my voice in good condition.”

“Proof of the 'hysterical strength' phenomenon is still hearsay, mostly because it's impossible to recreate those conditions in a lab. That said, try turning a doorknob when the bass drops on 'Skyfall' without ripping that door clean off of its hinges.”

“When I was much younger I tried to play guitar and bass first. Drums were just the easiest thing for me to play. I picked it up really quickly.”

“Most punk rock bands just have a guitar, bass and drums. The Descendents, the Ramones, you name 'em, it's just how it's always been.”

“I just love the hypnosis of a single bass drum.”

“It was never so much the heavy metal thunder that got me. I was into players who played with taste and did these walking bass parts. If you can play like that, it really opens up the music. You can't just pound away. After a while it's like, 'So what? What else you got?'”

“I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.”

“Yeah, Travis Scott's dad taught me how to ride minibikes and how to repair the engines. His name's Jack Webster. Jack had a drum set and his brother had a bass. So I used to play with them, and that's what started me wanting to get into music and take it serious. And this is before rap.”

“I find it really easy to write on the bass, because you kind of get straight to the point: you do lyrics and melody without thinking about decorating the song until after you've finished it.”

“People like my beats because of the crazy flow with the hi-hats and the bass.”

“On piano, I tend to write either gospel or singer-songwriter songs, sometimes kind of rocking blues songs. But the more heavier rock stuff I will write on bass.”

“My mom listened to a lot of house music. My dad listened to a lot of roots and dub. I've got a lot of bass. It's been in my whole life.”

“Eventually, my dad bought me a guitar for Christmas, and then I just went from there, man. I bought a drum kit a few years later and bought a bass, started producing, started singing.”

“I know exactly where to put the microphone now to get a decent drum sound, and I know how to set my guitar to make it sound like a bass.”

“I often wonder why girls who do get into music tend to be just singers, or else play the piano. And if they do pull on a guitar, why is it more likely to be the bass? Why not lead?”

“Whenever I catch a big bass, I hold him up and say, 'Thank you for playing 'Fishing With Chuck' before I throw him back in the water.”

“From playing bass guitar in a covers band in Israel... to my various partnerships with media companies, investment companies, governments etc. all over the world, I've been extremely lucky.”

“Just no gentrified drum and bass music anymore, please! It's not good for your health.”

“I was a big Drum and Bass junkie when I grew up.”

“I always have trouble recording drums and double bass.”

“I play bass, and I wanted to be a musician.”

“I'd be willing to do anything once. I did live bass fishing on TV. I've done horse jumping... so clearly I'm not very picky.”

“If what you do for a living is play drums or bass, then that defines you. You don't want to be some guy missing notes here and there; you want to really speak with it.”

“If you're going to play bass, then play bass how you play bass. You can learn technique and theory, but we want to hear what you have to offer.”

“I'm like soft Ray Manzarek. I think of the keyboard as almost like a bass or a lead.”

“I like a bass drum. A big one.”

“I didn't want to be the bass player everyone forgot about.”

“When I'm playing with my band, I designate different parts to feel different things. The bass pounds in your chest when you go to a concert. It almost replaces your heartbeat. Then the drums you feel on the floor.”

“There's something rhythmic about running, so it's not surprising that I love it. I'm a bass player, after all.”

“Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation.”

“For KRS-One, I have a specific sound - sparse drums and bass. I try to steer away from elaborate productions.”

“I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.”

“It's been fun to just play bass in a band and play live but be in the background.”

“I've been playing guitar since I was 6 and then drums, bass, and piano since I was 10 years old.”

“More traditional guitar, bass, drums - it's not something completely natural to me. It's, in a way, exotic.”

“With the fretless bass, you have a different tone and different sound, a different dynamic to the instrument, so you can really make it sing.”

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

“That's what Joe Don Rooney and I do. He plays guitar and I play bass - and there's no reason to call it a band if you're not gonna have the guys in the band playing on the records.”

“That's really important in a producer - a producer that can step up and play a keyboard, play a bass, play a guitar, and help you with things instead of just saying, 'I think this could be better.'”

“I love mixing house and disco with anything bass.”

“Once I've got something that I feel is strong, if I get long enough to think about it, it'll turn into something. I'll start thinking about the drums - what the drums are doing, what the bass is doing. Then, if I can remember it by the time I get to a recording device, it'll turn into a song.”

“I started taking the bass more seriously when I heard Jaco Pastorius.”

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

“I've been a fan of bass fishing for as long as I can remember.”

“I think I've ascended to the point after a lot of years where I'm kind of OK on bass.”

“My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics.”

“We had a bunch of instruments around the house. Like, I played different instruments, trumpet, bass, drums, piano, all that, but whatever I could get my hands on.”

“Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.”

“I like Jaco Pastorius' 'Portrait of Tracy.' He was this bass player who played jazz fusion. He was the dopest bass player who ever lived.”

“I drive my family nuts because when I watch something on TV, I'm likely to watch it with a bass guitar. But I don't plug it in!”

“In the springtime, we have softshell crab from Maryland, which I'd never had until I came to America. In the summer and early fall, we have striped bass, 'stripeys,' which come all the way up the Hudson River but mostly gather in the sound at the tip of Long Island, off Montauk.”

“Even when disco went out, I could still make hits. Once I had so much success, every idea became concentrated. I had so much confidence. I knew how the bass should sound, what rhythms would work. The tempos I knew: 110 to 120 BPM. I knew they would dance in the clubs in New York or anywhere.”

“Bass guitar is the engine of the band.”

“I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.”

“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.”

“I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.”

“If you're using live bass versus orchestral bass, you've got to make sure that you're not stepping on the toes of the other elements, so you've got to balance it out.”

“Jaco Pastorius gave the bass a new voice. I mean, he was very inspired by singers like Frank Sinatra. And in a lot of ways, maybe he wanted to be a singer himself.”

“Lemmy is, I think, for anybody in the world of rock n' roll - you don't have to be a bass player - he is a pioneer, and he was true to his music and also the lover of a lot of different styles of music.”

“When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.”

“Your time is spent making records, planning, touring - not counting the days until another guy's concert. There are some newer artists I like in a casual, passing way, but I couldn't tell you the bass player's name or name two songs off of their new record.”

“My guitar-playing always included bass lines, melody lines, and rhythm-guitar grooves.”

“Vocally, I don't think analogue makes that much difference, but with guitars, it definitely makes some difference. With drums and bass, absolutely.”

“I love to be able to put my hands on a keyboard, to have a guitar and a bass within reach, as well as all the effects.”

“I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.”

“For me, I guess music has always been the through-line. You know, I played guitar from a really young age, and my dad played, and my cousin gave me a drum kit when I was 13, and I played bass guitar, so, you know, it was definitely always in the house.”

“There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.”

“Jeff Ament, the bass player, plays basketball. He ultimately wants to do music, but he's really good at basketball, too. We all want to do what we can't do, maybe.”

“You get some confidence in your songwriting abilities and go for the essentials - guitar, bass, drums, vocals. Those are the basic band essentials that have to be in place before you go any further.”

“I grew up with the British-Chicago crossover of house music with a lot of pianos and very heavy bass lines, but what I love about house is you can mix it up a bit.”

“I've always been good about interfacing with machines. But that never seemed like a gateway to being able to make music. I never made the connection that music could be made with machines - that was what drum and bass was for me.”

“Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with us. He's loony as heck, and so are we. We have a great time and love doing what we do. I hope Johnny is with us for a long, long time. He is quite the guy.”

“I've watched so-called 'New Order' playing in Auckland, and Tom Chapman is miming along to my bass on tape... He's got his fingers on the low, and you can hear my high bass in the background. So he's miming.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Ever since I picked up a bass, I've written songs.”

“My favorite guitar now is my Martin HD-7 because it's got everything. It's got the jingle-jangle thing from the twelve string, it's got the flexibility of the six string, and the bass notes where you can do bass runs and that sort of thing.”

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

“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.”

“I played bass for a year, but I wasn't getting better at it, so I decided to stop so I could see my friends.”

“The bass is just the crayon that I picked out of the box. I'd probably be writing similar stuff if I played guitar or trumpet. The pictures I want to draw I do with this crayon I chose, which is the bass.”

“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.”

“During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.”

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

“My girlfriend is a fashion designer. She has her own company called Rachel Antonoff. She is doing a collaboration with Urban Outfitters right now, a shoe collaboration with Bass. She sells to Barneys, stuff like that.”

“I played bass guitar in high school and in college and then I actually fractured my thumb, so my bass career went bye-bye.”

“A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.”

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

“I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.”

“Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish.”

“That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.”

“I can understand why some of these drummers and bass players become cult figures with all of their equipment and the incredible amount of technique they have. But there's very little that I think satisfies you intellectually or emotionally.”

“Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.”

“Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.”

“But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.”

“I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.”

“I don't ever have any bass in my monitors at all; I instead like to lock in with the guitar. I know the bass player has got to be locked in with the drummer, but to me, metal music is about the guitar and drums locking in and operating like a machine together. I played with my brother forever, and we were magically locked in together.”