Eberhard Weber Quotes

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 support them.

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

I'm the greatest bass player in the world.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

Prince might be bringing that low sound back, because he has that double bass.

Since I was a little child, I always wanted to do music. That was my passion.

I tried the guitar, but it had two strings too many. It was just too complicated, man! Plus, I grew up with Steve Cropper. There were so many good guitar players, another one wasn't needed. What was needed was a bass.

I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it.

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

I grew up at the piano, and I longed to write musicals.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.

I still don't really feel like a bass player.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I never thought of doing anything else.

I consider myself a bassist first.

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

I'm the quiet bass player.

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

I just looked like there was only one thing I could do: be in a band. It looked like I was already successful, basically. Which is what I wanted to do when I was 16. I just felt like if you did that, aesthetically you would just draw people who were doing the same thing.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.