I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
I always got great respect as a bass player.
Without getting real personal, we liked our bass player Ed. He was a great guy and he was a good bass player but his playing was suited for a different style of band.
I still don't really feel like a bass player.
Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.
I consider myself a bassist first.
I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.