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Bassist Inspirational Quotes (1083)

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I plan on doing a lot more work on my own, and discovering and doing more.
Billy Sheehan
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I don't find most people to be as politically engaged as I am. I do find people that appreciate eye-opening events and words, and who want to learn more about what's going on. I do find people with a lot of opinions. And I get a lot of people who come up to me and give us props for what we do.
Serj Tankian
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I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.
Serj Tankian
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Your yes means nothing if you can't say no.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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The trouble with asking questions is you sometimes get answers you don't wanna hear.
Nikki Sixx
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Be yourself, no matter what they say.
Sting
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I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
Bryan Adams
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It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.
Tina Weymouth
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It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.
Charlie Haden
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You can draw a line between what I'm interested in and what I'm not interested in. On one side you can name Dylan and Lennon, who observe the world and have feelings, and write songs directly from those feelings. On the vapid side you have pop groups who need material and write songs to fill the hole, rather than getting somebody else.
Roger Waters
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What's the best angle to cut someone's throat? Well, usually from behind. That's usually how it works.
Nikki Sixx
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One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.
Bryan Adams
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Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.
Sting
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There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that.
Stanley Clarke
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Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.
Mike Mills
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Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.
Paul McCartney
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If you listen to what's on the pop charts, everything is machine oriented.
Roger Glover
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My favorite moments are when the bass falls in the pocket with the drums, the guitar is on top just slicing it, and the melody is scraping across like a sidewinder shattering through the monitor. It's just, ahhh, I love it! That's the jones, the hit, the buzz right there. It gets me off.
Nikki Sixx
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Recording wasn't as important to me as actually being to get on stage and act the fool.
Bootsy Collins
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Like attracts like. Whatever the conscious mind thinks and believes. the subconscious identically creates.
Bryan Adams
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Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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All you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be.
Roger Waters
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
Paul McCartney
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Art that serves an artist best is an experiment in expanding awareness.
Peter London
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