Bass Player Quotes needed..can you help?

[unbasslichkeit]

So I've got the following web site now:

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and on it is a little Java utility called the Quoter, which feeds text across the screen. I've decided to load it up with as many quotes from bass players (well known-or otherwise) as I can compile.

Got any good ones out there? It can be anything you want that's fit to print as long as it has a source/attribution of some kind.

Many thanks,
unbasslichkeit
"Not all who mumble are incoherent"

 

[fraublugher]

take two notes and rub them together 'til one catches fire

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

This topic has been covered before, but I can't avoid to recall one of my favorite quotes:

"In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities."

Les Claypool.

 

[Ian Perge]

"I'm a bass player, I like doing the same thing over and over again!" - Tony Levin

"I once killed a man for Geddy!" - Mike Myers

 

[Fran Diaz]

"Nobody notices I'm there until I'm not." Garry Tallent about his roll on the E Street Band.

 

[smokecell4u]

If it sounds good and the groove is the phat, the notes dont matter.-Fieldy

How can you explain the color purple to somebody that is blind? I don't explain what we do.-Les Claypool

 

[Joe Nerve]

No quotes at the moment but I wanted to plug into this thread cuz I like it.

 

[Wrong Robot]

Unfortunate I didn't catch this thread earlier. I was just going through some old papers from one of my classes and I had 2 sheets of bass quotes, I looked 'em over, there were some nice little nuggets of quote fun there, but I said to myself "I'm pretty sure I have this backed up somewhere" so I trashed it. Now that I think about it, it may or may not be backed up. Oh well. If I do happen upon it, I'll contribute what I can.

 

[JimK]

"No quotes at the moment but I wanted to plug into this thread cuz I like it". -Joe Nerve

 

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

"Kid, you need to get some lessons, if I'm your main influence!"

Gene Simmons.

 

[JimK]

"The only thing Don Ellis plays in 4/4 is 'Take Five'". -Charlie Haden
(Ellis' Big Band was renown for Odd-Time charts).

"My name is John Francis Pastorius III & I'm the greatest bass player in the world" -Jaco Pastorius

"Don't call me Charlie; that's not a man's name, that's a name for a horse" -Charles Mingus

 

[iamthebassman]

OK, this probably won't fit the topic but I always thought it was cool.

Pete Townshend on John Entwistle:
"In The Who I play rythym and lead, and John plays bass, rythym, and lead".

 

[j-raj]

"what do I think about electric bass?...heck, I was playing bass before electricity!"- Milt Hinton

 

[Ian Perge]

Here's a few from Bryan Beller:

In response to Mike Keneally's "I'm going to count this in three because it's in three, okay?" to a song that is indeed in three as he says that's his 'default mode' is four and a laughing crowd response - "We're really good musicians, so we talk about stuff like that before we go in." Taste the pungent mixture of irony and sarcasm.

In response to a audience participation "conducting" experiment gone horribly wrong - "Are you baked or something?!?" Context is everything on this one.

 

[DaftCat]

The taste is in the space. - juancard

Cite: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=190704

 

[audiotom]

John Paul Jones

"I see they've finally found my phone number" R&RHoF to his ex band mates

"funny it took an entire orchestra to replace me" on the un-ledded special

 

[Petary791]

"funny it took an entire orchestra to replace me" on the un-ledded special

Haha, i've read that before. I take it JPJ and the rest of LedZep didn't part on such good terms...?

 

[j-raj]

John Paul Jones

"I see they've finally found my phone number" R&RHoF to his ex band mates

"funny it took an entire orchestra to replace me" on the un-ledded special

I remember that... funny stuff.

 

[zombywoof5050]

"If you're a bass player in a rock band, you are by definition a moron.."

-Scott Thunes

 

[Al Caldwell]

I play bass...therefore i'm a bass player! Al Caldwell

No matter how many strings i have...for me it all starts with one note!
Al Caldwell