A great coach can lead you to a place where you don't need him any more.
Nothing heals like love and time
Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car. . . everything else is merely colours.
A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
The bass and drums are the engine, and the key to good bass playing is it's not what you play, it's what you DON'T play that counts. You leave the spaces, they're more important than anything.
I was raised in a musical family - 5 girls and 1 boy - so all of us girls don't do gender. We were all made to believe that we could do anything we wanted and so we did. One of my early bands was with my sisters. I didn't really come across a lot of problems because I just didn't see it. I took myself seriously and so everyone else did too - this is my mantra.
The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you.
I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.
Damen's The One. Always has been. Always will be.
Audiences are not strangers to me. They're the best friends I've got in my life.