Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.
I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play guitar.
I consider myself a bassist first.
I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.
Jack Bruce, as soon as I saw him, it changed me. I didn't even know what bass players did until I saw Cream.
Bass players are always the underdogs of the band, but I made sure that I was never viewed as one. I went out of my way to steal as much limelight as I could.
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.