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Bassist Inspirational Quotes (1083)

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I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
Paul McCartney
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I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
Paul McCartney
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Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.
Bryan Adams
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God looks out for fools and babies.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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I always loved writing, but I feel like I really started writing when I got my BlackBerry . It was the first time I could take these crazy thoughts in my head and actually get them out. This little device became my journal on the road.
Duff McKagan
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I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A friend told me that it was the sexiest instrument.
Nate Mendel
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We do what we want. We don't care what anyone else thinks.
Cliff Burton
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I'm not a star. I'm just backing up the cats.
Jaco Pastorius
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I don't like singing before noon.
Sting
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I have a more direct avenue to expression as an artist than I ever would as a politician.
Serj Tankian
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My emotions are very simple and always have been about the Hall of Fame. It's something that I had absolutely nothing to do with and had no control over, so I never thought much about it, to be frank.
Geddy Lee
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Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.
Bill Laswell
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I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone
Mike Dirnt
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At night a candle's brighter than the sun
Sting
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I like the sense of the road passing my eyes. It's always a fascinating experience to come into a new city...the sense of the people changing, the food changing, everything changing, the art.
Greg Lake
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So, I really don't consider myself a fabulous keyboard player.
Geddy Lee
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I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.
Bootsy Collins
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
Paul McCartney
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It's amazing what we can get away with and what we can't. But it's not for me to decide.
Mike Judge
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Every label thinks, when they sign someone, 'This is the perfect pedigree to sign. They're cute, they can sing, they can dance, et cetera.' And they say to the public, 'Here, this is what you're gonna like.' But you might say, 'No, I don't like that!' You'll probably say 'no' many more times than you'll say 'yes!
Randy Jackson
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I have a little name. That's why people can remember it.
Mike Watt
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That's something I've certainly taken from writers like Gord Downie is that there is a whole potential for breaking out of meter. Even if you don't do it, you're permitted to. He gave a lot of writers permission to do that, to expand and push out the borders of what a rock song can contain.
John K. Samson
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But that's not to say that the potential for the sun to shine doesn't exist. You know? Walk down the path towards the light, rather than walk into the darkness.
Roger Waters
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I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-­dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a girl group, and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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