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Bassist Inspirational Quotes (1083)

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Before you do anything, whatever it is, figure out who you are first.
Randy Jackson
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On the other hand, when I give it closer thought, I realize I'm not enough of a dictator to conduct an orchestra because it requires a pretty awful person. When you read these biographies of famous conductors, they are all awful people who fail in their private relationships.
Eberhard Weber
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I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
Bryan Adams
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If someone has been escaping reality, I don't expect him to dig my music.
Charles Mingus
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Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.
Mike Dirnt
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Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music.
Bill Laswell
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When you start out without a record nobody knows you, but if you have a record it's a lot easier.
John Deacon
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I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
Billy Sherwood
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I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living.
Jason Newsted
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Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.
Noel Redding
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When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
Paul McCartney
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I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
Sting
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All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
Paul McCartney
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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
Paul McCartney
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No one leaves the edit room thinking, 'Yeah, I nailed that one!' Everyone I know goes into their first premiere or their first screening thinking, 'I screwed up so bad. I'm sorry, I messed up.' It's just a real common feeling.
Mike Mills
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I'd written songs with lots of people, from one spectrum to the other.
Billy Sherwood
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
Paul McCartney
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I have nothing to prove. I just want to follow the music. I love making records. I love playing live. That's it. There's nothing outside of that. I look forward to the weirdness that's in front of us every day.
Mike Dirnt
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Through the years I've found that I prefer live playing to recording. I still do lots of recording - but I treasure the live shows.
Tony Levin
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Paul McCartney
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I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock.
Stanley Clarke
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Its just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means for now.
Nikki Sixx
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People are afraid of things they don't understand.
Bill Laswell
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
Serj Tankian
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