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 start the scale on the root of the chord and I'd go as far as my hand would reach without going out of position, say, five frets, and then I'd go… — Joe Pass Copy Share
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, concenctrate on the music, focus on what you're playing and let the playing come out. Once you start thinking about doing this or doing that, it's not good. What you are doing is like… — Joe Pass Copy Share
I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten,… — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
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… — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Using drugs didn't help me to play, all it did was to hang me up for about fifteen years. — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note. — Joe Pass Copy Share Image
