“It is not for me to judge another man’s life. I must judge, I must choose, I must spurn, purely for myself. For myself, alone.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Tag Archives: bass
Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Bass Player
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Bass Player
F Hole Tattoo
Logically, when you talkin’ about folk music and blues, you find out it’s music of just plain people.
—-Brownie McGhee
An F hole tattoo – A perfect back tattoo for a washtub string bass (sometimes called a gutbucket bass) player in a street band in the French Quarter.
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues
—-Mark Knopfler
Man Ray
American, 1924
Gelatin silver print
“You know when I’m down to my socks it’s time for business
That’s why they’re called business socks
It’s business, it’s business time”
―— Flight of the Conchords