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Bassist Inspirational Quotes (1083)

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There are definitely parts of me in most of the protagonists I write, but I find a bit of distance can be useful, so I often find myself better able to write from a point of view that isn't exactly my own.
John K. Samson
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I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.
Greg Lake
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
Paul McCartney
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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
Paul McCartney
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying says that death is the graduation ceremony, while living is just a long course in learning and preparing for the next journey. If we acknowledge death as the beginning, then how can we fear it?
Nikki Sixx
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I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.
Sting
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I'm a much healthier eater and I've lost quite a bit of weight over the years.
Randy Jackson
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The distance thing is partially due to the fact that I'm pretty shy and I've struggled with extreme stage fright in the past. So I just have to go onstage in a different head space so I'm not as self-aware.
Dee Dee Ramone
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Sometimes it's better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.
Serj Tankian
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When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
Greg Lake
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When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.
Paul McCartney
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How can I save my little boy from Oppenheimer's deadly toy?
Sting
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Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.
Dee Dee Ramone
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If you have some magical chemistry that actually find the music you make compelling, that is a big bonus.
Geddy Lee
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I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.
Trevor Dunn
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It's a battle between record company, between producer and between mastering engineer. Because the louder you make your record in a digital process, the more dynamics are squished out of it. Nobody knows exactly what happens, but the dynamics in the performance disappear, and everything is at the same volume.
Geddy Lee
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Rock stardom is hard work and it takes a team to make it happen. Also, communication is important because too often inexperienced artists have delusions of what a label is supposed to do for them. The truth is, being in the record business is hard work and requires focus and calculated moves to achieve success.
David Ellefson
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
Paul McCartney
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Wondering what I'm doing tonight I've been in the closet and feel all right
Dee Dee Ramone
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Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.
Charlie Haden
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Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.
Roger Waters
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Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
Geddy Lee
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The engine room really is a metaphor for my head, and all the things bangin' around, and I think I share that with a lot of people. A lot of memories, and a lot of hopes, and a lot of just dealing with the day-to-day. Sometimes it gets all abstract.
Mike Watt
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Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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