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Bassist Inspirational Quotes (1083)

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I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery.
Les Claypool
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I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.
John Deacon
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I can't fly a flag for monogamy or whatever the opposite is it depends on the person and on the situation.
Sting
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Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.
Charles Mingus
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Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, He's got that, he's got this, and I have this. It's a team thing.
Nikki Sixx
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Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.
Krist Novoselic
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Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
Charles Mingus
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I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.
Noel Redding
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In terms of political things, I think it's important to be more direct in terms of political statements. I think in terms of philosophical and things that you plant things and see them grow lyrically or musically, it's okay to be subtle.
Serj Tankian
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I got my first real six string, bought it at the five and dime, played it 'til my fingers bled.
Bryan Adams
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Bungle is definitely a priority right now.
Trevor Dunn
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A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.
Serj Tankian
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We get paid in flesh. Our audiences are sluts and whores, each and every one.
Nikki Sixx
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When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.
Paul McCartney
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Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.
Sting
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements and improvisation. Only a few people are able to listen and say what is composed and what is improvised. It's a unit.
Eberhard Weber
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I don't think happiness is necessarily the reason we're here. I think we're here to learn and evolve, and the pursuit of knowledge is what alleviates the pain of being human.
Sting
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I'm only interested in heavy metal when it's me who's playing it. I suppose it's a bit like smelling your own farts.
John Entwistle
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I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.
Serj Tankian
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I've experienced as much fame as I ever want to.
Trevor Dunn
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If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.
Nikki Sixx
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Toward the later days of Sabbath, instead of going in and knocking out what songs we did in rehearsal, we would polish them to death.
Geezer Butler
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I never try and sound like Sabbath.
Geezer Butler
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My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.
Noel Redding
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