Famous Bass Player Quotes

[Metalbasshippy]

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!!!!

I'm jealous...

 

[Ron Plichta]

From a Marcus Miller clinic back in '06:

"If you don't know theory, you've lost the gig before you've played the first note."

 

[Easy8]

Paul McCartney

'What kind of bass strings do you use, Paul?'

'Long shiny ones.' "I don't know the model names of basses," he laughs, "I don't know about amps, I don't know about serial numbers."

 

[AmieLouHat]

I forget who it was but a quote I've always loved is:

"Play every not like it cost you a dollar."

 

[AkosBass]

Music is the only thing keeping the planet together. -- Jaco Pastorius

 

[Mike Sorr]

"The answer to the question "do you read music" is either yes or no, not kind of. Kind of means no." - said to me by Jaco Pastorius upstairs at the old Lonestar Roadhouse in NYC.

 

[Yorick]

"F*ck Off!!!!"- Lemmy, to me.....

 

[cnltb]

"Ha! Slapping, the ketchup of the bass world!" - Randy Jackson

Wasn't that Anthony Jackson?

 

[armybass]

"dirt keeps the funk" Jaco

 

[cnltb]

"dirt keeps the funk" Jaco

I think James Jamerson said that too. No?

 

[Bassmanbob]

It was Jamerson