With bass, especially bottom end, the vibration has to happen on stage otherwise the feel is wrong. This is why you can't scale the equipment down too far.
Dorsey played the upright bass and steel guitar, as well as acoustic guitar. Johnny played acoustic guitar and together they were fabulous songwriters and singers.
My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
It's amazing the things you hear from your players talking to them one on one. I never embarrassed a player, I spoke with him alone.
I don't really have a 'favorite' person to play with. I like to play with the player that is playing the best, but it doesn't always work out that way.
T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around.
Bruce's band is so different from the Grateful Dead; there's no lead guitar player, for one thing.
Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
Well, I don't think I've necessarily ever been a passionate football player or a passionate person.
It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.
My audiences have given me lots of love as a tennis player. I hope they appreciate my passion for acting.
How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.
Just because I'm undersized and under-this and under-that, I've still been a good football player since I was little.
I used to play soccer when I was in Morocco, but I was more of a basketball player. I played high school basketball, I played AAU basketball.
Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.
I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
A player cannot become a world champion overnight. To become a champion, a player has to sacrifice a lot and to devote much of his time practising and training.
Nick Zinner has been one of my favorite guitar players for a long time.
But the equipment to protect the players hasn't developed along with that, so now you have more players out with worse injuries, for longer periods of time.
