New Order has always been a hybrid band. We always mixed guitar, bass, drums with electronic.

- Bernard Sumner

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

- Colin Greenwood

I'm the quiet bass player.

- Colin Hanks

I learned to do a few tricks that other people hadn't done before. I developed that trebly bass thing a little further.

- Chris Squire

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

- Charlie Haden

I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.

- Bob Livingston

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

- Britt Daniel

I listened to many different types of instruments and music, and have always tried to look at the bass as an instrument as opposed to only a bass.

- Billy Sheehan

I always got great respect as a bass player.

- Bill Wyman

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

- Bernard Sumner

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

- Anthony Bourdain

I play a percussion instrument, not a musical saw; it needs no amplification. Where it's needed, they put a microphone in front of the bass drum. But, I don't think it's necessary to play that way every night.

- Buddy Rich

My brother Carl taught me how to play bass. I'm a self-taught keyboard player, though - I figured out our harmonies at the piano.

- Brian Wilson

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

- Ben Harper

When I started playing the bass, I became kind of fascinated by it and started investigating various styles of bass playing, and I was really struck with funk music, mainly American funk music - Stanley Clarke, Funkadelic and that kind of stuff. That comes out in a couple of songs like 'Barbarism Begins at Home.'

- Andy Rourke

It will be the first time I've played live with a double bass.

- Alvin Lee

I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands.

- Adam Jones

I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

- Adam Driver

A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

- Ace Frehley