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Bassist Inspirational Quotes (1083)

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Back in the day, fans wrote letters to groups - you'd get them, although it could take a while. Now, artists can go online and there's discussions about what you should and shouldn't be doing. The minute you announce that you're recording an album, thousands of people are telling you what that album should be.
Geddy Lee
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I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.
Nikki Sixx
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Never lose the groove to find a note.
Victor Wooten
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Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
Paul McCartney
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It doesn't matter who you vote for. It's still the same billionaires that run the world.
Geezer Butler
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There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.
Mike Dirnt
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A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.
Sting
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My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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For what I can imagine and feel and think and hear, I can hardly do anything on the acoustic bass. It used to be just pure frustration of imagining so much more and being able to get to a certain level of execution.
Esperanza Spalding
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I don't work at being ordinary.
Paul McCartney
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I believe very firmly that indigenous populations had a really good, intuitive understanding of why we're here. And we're trying to gain that same understanding through psychology and intellect in modern civilization.
Serj Tankian
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You can't play bass in a vacuum.
Roger Glover
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For me I'd say... a fact that nobody knows about me is that I hate eggs, they gross me out. It's this weird thing from childhood, I don't know what it is, but I just think eggs are disgusting.
Mikey Way
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It is kind of weird being the last gang in town.
Steve Diggle
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Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.
Paul McCartney
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For years we've been playing and writing songs that sound happy. And yet if you listen, the words are all like My brains are falling out of my ears would someone please pull me together?
Robby Takac
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I really like sometimes to do action pictures I get a really big kick out of doing those.
Stanley Clarke
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To be free is to be equal, but to be equal is not to be free.
Marco Mendoza
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Turn the clock to zero, honey, we're starting up a brand new day.
Sting
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If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.
Paul McCartney
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My father was a jazz tenor sax player. He played in a lot of big bands. So I had that sound around me all the time. The first record that really caught my ear was Clifford Brown's 'Brownie Eyes.' I grew up listening to John Coltrane and Illinois Jacquet. This is where I come from... I love improvisational music.
Meshell Ndegeocello
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I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.
Paul McCartney
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I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.
Roger Waters
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I love to write. It's my first love.
Geddy Lee
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