Fred Durst Quotes

“I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.”

“I love electronic music, and I love drum and bass.”

“The worst thing I could be thinking is how could I be a cool bass player.”

“My dad was a bass player in a Latino band when I was growing up. So we always had musical instruments in our basement.”

“I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.”

“The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.”

“That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.”

“I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.”

“Music has always been in my family, but it was mainly keyboards. I learned to play classical piano, but when I first heard the amazing bass guitar of James Jamerson, who played on all the big Motown hits of the '60s and '70s, I knew bass guitar was my instrument.”

“Bass players share a secret fellowship, a sort of gnosis peculiar to their breed, a kind of smart that is hard for others to recognize or understand: the art of the whole sound. Bass players actually believe in musical epistemology, they are practitioners of musical metaphysics.”

“I'm a hopeless romantic.”