Joe Pass Quotes

#1. People ask me to describe how I play, and the most obvious answer is that I'm a jazz influenced guitar player. But I'm not a jazz guitar player. Wes Montgomery was a jazz guitarist, Joe Pass was a jazz guitarist (laughs).

Larry Carlton

#2. Learn everything you know in all keys.

Joe Pass

#3. Maybe you have thought that doing ... little kindnesses doesn't make much difference, but as Alma said, "By small and simple things are great things brought to pass."

Joe J. Christensen

#4. As a quarterback, there's no better way to finish your year, in winning a Super Bowl, than with a touchdown pass. The chances of that happening, by the looks of most of the Super Bowls, is a very rare chance. Fortunately for me, I had an opportunity.

Joe Montana

#5. Your husband had something he meant to pass on to you," Zahara said. "I just wanted to make sure that you got it." Reaching into her pocket, she handed the woman a single tattered sheet of flimsi.

Joe Schreiber

#6. I'm not the kind of guy who will pass someone without saying hello. If that's flaky, then I guess I'm flaky.

Joe Cowley

#7. Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.

Joe Montana

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

Joe Pass

#10. This study is not for the amateur. It's not for the dilettante. It's not for the cult follower. It's not for someone who wants everything done for them. It's not for the one who just wants to stare with that fixed dog-like devotion towards the teacher.

Frederick Lenz

#11. The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

Joe Abercrombie

#12. The Naughty List - People who skim or outright skip acknowledgments pages. Please contact the management for your free, all-expenses-paid pass to Christmasland.

Joe Hill

#13. She's so conjunctive to my life and soul That, as the star moves not but in his sphere, I could not but by her. The

William Shakespeare

#14. I'm hoping to pass for one of Vosch's tween recruits, but I probably look more like GI Joe's little sister playing dress up

Rick Yancey

#15. I love the tour bunks. I can sleep like a baby in those bunks. It really doesn't bother me at all. A lot of people have a difficult time - they're like, 'It's like a coffin.' I get in there and I just pass out. You can't even wake me up.

Joe Jonas

#16. When running to fill a time quota, however, the reverse happens. You can't make that time pass any faster by rushing, so you settle into a pace that feels right to you at the moment. Each minute above a quota is a little victory.

Joe Henderson

#17. 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 important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.

Joe Pass

#18. We did not pass the ball ... we couldn't have found our front two with radar.

Joe Royle

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

Joe Pass

#20. There's an old saying, this too shall pass, and change is good.

Joe Lando

#21. I might be more of a tomboy on the ice, but when it comes to fashion and things like that, I'm a total girlie-girl.

Ashley Wagner

#22. The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.

Joe Abercrombie

#23. This, too, shall pass. Life is many days. This ends."

--The Fruit of Exile

Joe Churchwell

#24. 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

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

Joe Pass

#26. I can only assume that he must have dreamed it up at the last minute and ad-libbed it - and on just such foolish, tenuous, holy threads as that, I suppose, hang the destinies of us all.

Frederick Buechner

#27. One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

Jerry Pournelle