Learn everything you know in all keys.

- Joe Pass

You can't think and play. If you think about what you're playing the playing becomes stilted. You have to just focus on the music I feel, concenctrat…

- Joe Pass

I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice eve…

- Joe Pass

Listen, listen, listen.

- Joe Pass

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.

- Joe Pass

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

- Joe Pass

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

- Joe Pass

Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years.

- Joe Pass

I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is impor…

- Joe Pass