Teddy Wilson, I think, said a little while ago that it's much easier to come in and play whatever comes into your mind, without obeying any of the laws of bass line and harmony and so on.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.
I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing.
I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.
I always got great respect as a bass player.
With guitar, bass and drums, you've got limited horizons.
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.
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