Bassist

🇺🇸Dee Dee Ramone

Music

1951–2002

"I hope no one thinks we really sniff glue. I stopped when I was eight."

🇺🇸Krist Novoselic

Music

b. 1965

"Did you know that the biggest—you know, the biggest star in the univer—in the whole galaxy/universe is as big as an atom is small?  Did you know that?  Isn't that wild?  That's more pothead philosophy."

🇬🇧Guy Berryman

Music

b. 1978

"I think I've kind of got the best position. I get all the benefits of being in one of the biggest bands in the world and have a certain anonymity as well. So I'm perfectly happy with the situation. source"

🇬🇧Sting (musician)

Music

b. 1951

"Jung believed there was a large pattern to life, that it wasn't just chaos. Our song Synchronicity II is about two parallel events that aren't connected logically or causally, but symbolically."

🇬🇧Roger Waters

Music

b. 1943

"In the finished article, the only thing that is important is whether it moves you or not. There is nothing else that is important at all."

"Pope Heathen Scum at Encyclopaedia Metallum"

🇨🇦Geddy Lee

Music

b. 1953

"For me, how I feel about what I wrote down turns into a song."

🇺🇸Charles Mingus

Music

1922–1979

"What Is a Jazz Composer" - Liner notes from Let My Children Hear Music"

🇺🇸Nikki Sixx

Music

b. 1958

"Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it."

🇺🇸Jaco Pastorius

Music

1951–1987

"I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound."