After two years in the songwriting world, I wrote 'All About That Bass.' L.A. Reid heard it and signed me as an artist.
But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
I went to junkyards, abandoned car lots. I asked supermarkets for the big jugs they put pig guts in, to make cabinets for my bass speakers.
Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
No one plays Bass guitar. Everyone says "Oh yeah I play guitar" strum strum
I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
Cello is my first instrument, then piano, drums, bass, violin, recorder, saxophone, but I'd never play them live!
I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.
During college I realized I had a music predisposition and really got involved in it. I started playing bass guitar. That was how I began to fit in.
If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me.
A lot of people, when a guy scores a lot of goals, think, 'He's a great player', because a goal is very important, but a great player is a player who can do everything on the field. He can do assists, encourage his colleagues, give them confidence to...
You can get the dart player out of the pub, but you can't get the pub out of the dart player.
I was never really a virtuoso guitar player per se.
Thankfully I'm a better actor than football player, or at least I hope so.
I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player.
Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
I'd rather be a good person off the field than a good baseball player on the field.
Players come and go, good friends, players who performed well. You can't control that.
