Colin Hanks Quotes

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

I always got great respect as a bass player.

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

I consider myself a bassist first.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

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

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 am an inventor of music.

The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.

I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.

I think of myself as a film composer.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

I focused primarily on being an instrumentalist and studying music and on my primary means of expression: composing and playing.

I've written my own music, and I play guitar.

I started playing the piano when I was 6 years old 'cause my folks tried to get me away from the gramophone. And I just - I lived for music since I could think. And they got me piano lessons. So by the time I was 13, I was quite an accomplished piano player and musician.

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

Being a bass player in these big-time rock bands is hard work.

I don't play guitar. I sing. I'm the lead singer, of Cousin Billy. I also play harmonica, after a fashion.

I bought my first bass because I wanted to be in a Band, and heard that it was the easiest instrument to play. A friend told me that it was the sexiest instrument.

I've kind of become obsessed with the pedal steel. It's a beautiful sound, and the mechanics of it are so interesting.

I play keyboards and have played on many a Toto record.

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