Will Lee, about time:
"There's three kinds of people in the world, those that can count and those that can't."

My favorite is by Randy Jackson on slapping. "Slapping! The ketchup of the bass world!"

I just wanted to make a correction to a quote that was attributed above to RANDY Jackson:

"Slapping. The ketchup of the bass world."

It was a lament that even in the slowest of ballads you could here inevitably hear someone slap a note, in the writer's opinion pointlessly and intrusively. It was also a comment on the ubiquity of slapping in all kinds of music that the person quoted didn't think was conducive to slapping.

I'm pretty sure that quote by ANTHONY Jackson, and not Randy Jackson, appeared in an issue of Bass Player magazine more than a decade ago.

Later,

Glen

Reminds me of another quote, from a Tom Robbins book (an author, but not a bass player as far as I know):

"There are 2 kinds of people in this world: those who think there are two kinds of people in this world, and those who don't..."

Charles Mingus on Joni Mitchell-
"...that chick's got balls".

A famous jazz guitarist would tour solo and pick
up a different bassist in every town he played


He got a young college bassist one night. Up the
neck, down the neck...the bassist spent half the
night playing high up in thumb position.



After the gig, the guitarist said to the young
bassist "Man, you sound great. You and I should
get us a bass player and do some gigs".

When I first started out, a guitarist/bassist once said to me, "Hey, did you get a Fender Jazz yet? You might as well get one now. Jazz basses are like Les Paul guitars, sooner or later, you're gonna have to deal with one."

I had a teacher (pianist, BTW) who said "A
good bassist should be felt and not heard!"










Frankly, I never liked him much.

Question: "Hey man, when was the last time
we played together?"


Answer: "Tonight"...:->

Always loved that one.

I also like this little joke.... Works great with a
fellow musician that you can joke around with!

"It was a pressure working against you...: