So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

In jazz, you listen to what the bass player is doing and what the drummer is doing, what the pianist and the guitarist is doing, and then you play something that compliments that, so you are thinking simultaneously and thinking ahead.

The worst words I could ever hear as a bass player was, 'Can you play the root notes?'

I still don't really feel like a bass player.

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.