Learn everything you know in all keys.

- 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

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

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

- Joe Pass

Listen, listen, listen.

- 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'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

My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd star…

- 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