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Bassist Inspirational Quotes (1083)

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I, myself, came to enjoy the players who didn't only just swing but who invented new rhythmic patterns, along with new melodic concepts. And those people are: Art Tatum, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Sonny Rollins, Lester Young, Dizzy Gillespie and Charles Parker, who is the greatest genius of all to me because he changed the whole era around.
Charles Mingus
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That is what intrigues me songwriting and song structure and expression.
Geddy Lee
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They build machines they can't control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.
Sting
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Music is an emotional experience, and that is what imprints itself on the soul.
Greg Lake
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You never know what the future brings.
Randy Jackson
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.
Paul McCartney
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
Paul McCartney
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I never wanted to go back and relive the glory days, I just want to keep moving forward. That's what I took from punk. Keep going. Don't look back.
Paul Simonon
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The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.
Paul McCartney
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Music is one of those things that becomes a soundtrack to our lives.
Nathan East
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In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.
Paul McCartney
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
Randy Jackson
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And Seattle isn't really crazy anymore. It's a big dot-com city.
Krist Novoselic
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I think my favorite for music and spirit is Ray Gomez.
Stanley Clarke
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Everyone expects us to be assholes nowadays. I think we've let them down. We're regular dudes and dorky kids. Success doesn't mean you have to change.
Mikey Way
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After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.
Trevor Dunn
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You are never more than a half-step away from a right note.
Victor Wooten
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There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
Paul McCartney
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Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.
Bryan Adams
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Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.
Sting
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I was faced with a choice: to deny my addiction and embrace that 'comfortably numb' but 'magicless' existence, or accept the burden of insight, take the road less travelled, and embark on the often painful journey to discover who I was and where I fit.
Roger Waters
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You have bewitched me, body and soul, and I love...I love...I love you. I never wish to be parted from you from this day on.
D'arcy Wretzky
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When I was coming up, we weren't trying to get a hit or get paid, we were just trying to do our thing. The only thing we were really trying to do was to be recognized for our originality.
Bootsy Collins
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
Paul McCartney
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