Casey Abrams Quotes

I can sing, but I consider myself a bass player. I'm, you know, a musician first.

I think I've been playing bass for as long as I've played guitar, and I love them both.

I've been playing the bass guitar for almost twelve years and fretless for about nine, so I've got quite a bit of mileage in my hands already.

I definitely think of myself as a musician first.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.

I'm not a singer. I'm a musician, which is different.

From childhood, I have been more of a musician than a singer. People close to me know how much effort I put into practising. Even when I am travelling, I have my tanpura on my iPhone.

I didn't play a lot of bass as a kid, but I sang it.

Billy Sheehan has always been my number one favorite bass player of all time.

My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

I would not want to do anything that would take away from my career in music. I will always be a musician first.

With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.

I love Ray Charles. He can still teach everybody a lot about how to make great music. Not necessarily how to make hits, but how to make great music. Of course, part of it is his incredible talent. Who are the greatest jazz singers in the world? Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Ray Charles.

I started playing guitar at, like, 12 or 13 and just rock bands mostly. I had a punk rock band and hard core bands and all that.

I am a muso, and I love doing it. I assumed that would be my career for a long time. I always wanted to be a writer, but I didn't think that anyone could actually be that full-time, so I always go back to conducting and arranging and playing. If you scratch me, I'm a musician.

I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument.

I'm not a 'guitarist.' I'm trying to be a bassist.

You can actually go to school and college to learn how to play and get technical with the electric bass.

I set myself up to be a bass guitarist and bass players get a lot more work than people like me.

I listen to Prince on my iPad. And I use a Chords & Scales app to warm up before performing.

When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.

When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.

I used to want to be a singer and a musician for years, from 6 years old to today. I'm not really good, but in time I could be. I'm more of a singer than anything.

I am a musician, but I'm another type of musician.