Bass Music Quotes

I learned to MC over drum 'n' bass music.

A nightmare is two bassists on stage.

My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well.

I'm really into, like, electric pop music and dubstep, things like that.

I was always heavily interested in underground musical movements, the post-dubstep scene; Mount Kimbie were coming out, and bands like that.

I went to my first drum n' bass rave when I was 16 and remember being terrified. Looking around, trying to figure out how to dance to this music, watching some girl in some hot pants, trying little ways to learn her movements.

Every time I want to impress someone about samples and hip-hop, I play 'Portrait of Tracy.' It's one of the greatest bass players ever doing a whole composition with only the two harmonics of electric bass; then a three-second loop in it became every great R&B song in five-year intervals.

Amon Tobin has been producing electronic music since the mid-'90s, and was a key figure in the rise of drum-and-bass. He's also written some of the genre's most compelling tracks, in the process delving into jazzy breakbeats and bass lines.

Grime is a particular style of music. You've got electro, funk and garage; grime is its darker side. It's constantly evolving.

I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something you hear on CDs or would really ever play in bands. You listen to it and are like, 'What is happening?' It's this blizzard of notes in weird time signatures, and they're trying to teach you that.

I don't play big stadium-style dance, but I have discovered, to my delight, that the appetite for real low slung deep house is very much alive.

Jaco Pastorius gave the bass a new voice. I mean, he was very inspired by singers like Frank Sinatra. And in a lot of ways, maybe he wanted to be a singer himself.

I'm a bass player and I'm a drummer - I'm a big fan of bass players.

I've been making Bass Communion music longer than any kind of other music. I don't know if you picked up a copy of a vinyl release I put out a couple of years ago of something called Altamont.

I was trying to sound like some of the people I was listening to, like Mala and Coki.

Let there be bass.

Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place.

When I know it's like a bass song, I gotta go with my SP-1200.

If you listen to a Deadmau5 record or a Skrillex record, I really enjoy that stuff because, as aggressive sounding as the Skrillex records are, they're still musical, and that's why they have such a broad appeal.

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

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

I wrote probably my phattest banging record with Knife Party: 'Pile Driver.'

When dubstep came out, I loved it.

It's funny: when I started playing bass in 1984, you had guys like Paul Simonon fron the Clash, John Paul Jones, Lemmy, and Nikki Sixx was the head guy in Motley Crue, and you had all this post-punk stuff like Magazine and Killing Joke where the bass sort of lead the way. Not that I picked it to sort of be a main dude, but it intrigued me.