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Famous Bass Player Quotes

#41
i met john entwistle on several occasions. i had him sign his bass instructional video for me.

je: so did you learn anything?
me: yeah that compared to you i suck as a bass player
je: compared to me, everybody sucks as a bass player.....[silence]....that was a joke, i'm sure that you are a fine bass player.

insulted by the ox, i can die happy!!!!:hyper:
 
#43
ZombieGhosTrain said:
"If the sh!t fits, wear it!"

-Donald Duck Dunn
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Yes!!!!!

We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline. - Donald "Duck" Dunn

2000 bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free. -Ray Charles

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff." -Frank Zappa.
 
#44
"There's a difference between cleverness and true awareness"-Jaco Pastorius

"A chord is not a chord until the bass player decides which note to play"-Sting

"Practice 10 hours a day and you'll have no problem"-Ray Brown

"You want to be an artist? Here's a can of paint, paint my house b***h"-Gene Simmons
 
#45
saxnbass said:
Yes!!!!!

We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline. - Donald "Duck" Dunn

2000 bucks and it's yours. You can take it home with you. As a matter of fact, I'll throw in the black keys for free. -Ray Charles

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff." -Frank Zappa.
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Zappa's the man....

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read"

"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to"

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life"

Frank Zappa
 
#49
good thread :)

''If you are going to have bass, let's hear it. Let's make it just as important as the other instruments in the band... It's true, sometimes you have to fight to be heard in metal. But you have to give them something worth fighting for!'' - Steve DiGiorgio (Death, Sadus, etc)
 
#53
The best quote ever, by the ever - humorous Lemmy, regarding his MacFarlane "action figure" : ""I had to stand on this platform while the camera went around and did the hologram thing and then they made the model, only smaller," Lemmy said. "They said it's an action figure, and I said, 'So, you're gonna put a d**k on it?' They said, 'No.' I said, 'Well, then it's not going to get much action then, is it?' A bad name for it, right?" Priceless !
 
#58
Ronnie Hawkins, talking to Robbie Robertson back in the early days while trying to get the guys who became The Band to join up as his backing band, The Hawks:

"You won't make much money, but you'll get more ***** than Frank Sinatra..."


EDIT: Oops. Never mind. I just realized that this thread was for BASS player quotes. Sorry...
 

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