At the time, I didn't know that bass would not be enough for me. I'm not a bass player because bass is always a background instrument even to this very day.
I'm the quiet bass player.
I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!
In 1972, I got my first electric bass and started playing the kind of instrument I play now. I found that the majority of musicians couldn't bear that. They are not used to listening to the bass because they think the bass is in the background to sup...
I wouldn't want to hear Beethoven without beautiful bass, the cellos, the tuba. It's very important. Hip-hop has thunderous bass. And so does Beethoven. If you don't have the bass, it's like being amputated. It's like you have no legs.
My dad taught me to play bass. He's a bass player; he still plays in a band in Michigan to this day. He taught me to play bass when I was about 6. I used to just go to band practice with him, and whoever didn't show up for rehearsal that day, I would...
Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.
I still don't really feel like a bass player.
I always got great respect as a bass player.
The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
I like the guitar better these days. I like the bass, too, but it's hard to fit a bass amp in a small car.
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.
I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.
I recruited my dad to be my bass player and fired him on several occasions. He stayed on as a bus driver.
I played a bass player and a singer in a movie once, but I totally lip-synced to everything.
There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.
A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
