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• A lot of other bass players have told me I’m the only bass player who plays with a pick but sounds like he’s playing with the thumb and fingers, which is a great compliment.

  Glenn Hughes

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  Tags in Compliment, Bass

• Journalism is my first love. But music comes in a close second. What’s important for me is that whatever you do, whatever your passion is, you should have another passion – something in your life. And when I put on that musician hat and I put the bass in my hands, I’m not Lester Holt the TV guy anymore. I’m just Lester Holt who likes music.

  Lester Holt

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• I started playing with a group of young people when I was 13. I turned professional when I was 15 and I played dance halls, this on bass guitar.

  Dave Holland

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• My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.

  Eddie Van Halen

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• I like to practice on the bass, but I don’t do it as often as I should.

  Geddy Lee

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• You can’t beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

  Lou Reed

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• Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn’t even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.

  Geezer Butler

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• A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

  Suzi Quatro

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• No, but a cello is the perfect string bass for an accordion. Works with it beautifully.

  Elizabeth Moon

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• I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

  Rick Danko

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• Then, as the day progresses, depending on how the product is coming in – for instance, the fish man will fax us and say black bass is great – throughout the day, we’ll also make judgment calls and adapt to what’s available.

  Thomas Keller

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  Tags in Bass, Adapt, Fax, Depending, Product

• Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

  Matt Cameron

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• Actually freestyle really comes from ‘Planet Rock’. If you listen to all the freestyle records you’ll hear that they are based on ‘Planet Rock’. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock.

  Afrika Bambaataa

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  Tags in Planet, Miami, Bass, Hear, Listen, Rock