Malcolm-Jamal Warner Quotes

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar.

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

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

I got my first real bass guitar in my hands when I was 14 - a 1957 Fender Precision, which is still hanging on the wall in my front room. I loved the heaviness of it and the feel of the wood. I still do.

My bass is my weapon.

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

When I started learning the cello, I fell in love with the instrument because it seemed like a voice - my voice.

I just think that playing bass, like punk rock bass with a pick, wasn't meant to be done for 25 years.

I consider myself a bassist first.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

I have to say, I do love the Ovation guitars. If I had one guitar to play, it would be that one, and it's got nothing to do with having my name on it. I absolutely rely on it.

I was a kid, 12 or something, when the Partridge Family was big on TV. I liked the curly cord running from the bass to the amps, which were real fancy. That cord looked so cool. I said, 'Wow! I gotta play something like that!'

I always got great respect as a bass player.

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.

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

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 own a '66 Jaguar. That's the guitar I polish, and baby - I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.