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The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.

I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

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.

Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.

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

I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.