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Bassist Inspirational Quotes (1083)

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When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
Charlie Haden
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I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument you listen to music.
Charles Mingus
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This band is metal in that we have a lot of metal in our instruments, and there's quite a lot of metal on my belt buckle as well.
Mikey Way
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I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets.
Sting
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I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
Paul McCartney
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I was already playing the clarinet and the piano. My father's a piano player. But I wanted to play in a funk band, and the clarinet wasn't fit. So you was Hey, man, can I sit in? They're like, No, man. So I started fooling around with the bass.
Marcus Miller
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I feel you see every crack and bruise with black and white [pictiures] and color distracts usually from the honesty.
Nikki Sixx
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First and foremost, I want people on concerts to have a really great experience away from the negative press and negative stuff that you see on the news and Facebook. I don't even like seeing people's cell phones. Let's have a human experience and rub up against each other, you know.
Mike Dirnt
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We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.
Krist Novoselic
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Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.
Paul McCartney
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We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.
Tina Weymouth
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
Paul McCartney
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I didn't actually realise what apartheid meant. I'm probably a bit naive, but I thought it was more of a vague segregation, like on the beaches and buses.
John Deacon
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I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
Paul McCartney
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I can't stand rap....people who can't sing do rap....you can sing rebellion as well as talk it....Hitler would have been in a rap band.
John Entwistle
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There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
Esperanza Spalding
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The secret to walkin´ on water is knowing where the rocks are.
Bootsy Collins
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I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.
Sting
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No one enjoys being away from friends and family.
Roger Glover
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In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.
Roger Waters
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Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.
Bootsy Collins
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We never did things as we were supposed to do. That was part of our ethic. We did what felt right to us, not what someone told us we should do.
Mike Mills
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
Paul McCartney
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
Paul McCartney
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