Eberhard Weber Quotes

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 love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

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.

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

I started taking the bass more seriously when I heard Jaco Pastorius.

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

I'm a bass player and I love the bass.

I wonder if I could make an electric bass.

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

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.

Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock.

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.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

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.

I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.

I used to aspire to being more of a traditional bass player, to be honest. People say I play it like a guitar - and I was a guitar player when I was growing up. I started learning when I was eight, and that's what I was fascinated with in my teen years.

Back in the day, being a young, inspired bass player, I started to gravitate toward jazz fusion. I almost would have called myself an elitist. I got to the point where, for a little bit there, I was more interested in instrumental music.

Besides, the bass isn't a difficult instrument to play. It's like one step up from the kazoo, isn't it?

I was never much of a bass player.

Being an actor is like being a bass player: one of the component parts to the collective hole.

My band, Miles Long, is a jazz-funk spoken word band. There's jazz sensibilities, but I'm a bass player, so I'm very much into the head-bobbing vibe with sophisticated lyrics.

Lemmy is, I think, for anybody in the world of rock n' roll - you don't have to be a bass player - he is a pioneer, and he was true to his music and also the lover of a lot of different styles of music.

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