"I took the frets out of my bass after I was getting into jazz a lot and I wanted to have that upright sound."

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Source : "Modern Electric Bass, Jaco Pastorius". Book by Jaco Pastorius, 1985.

Jaco Pastorius

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“Ignorance is always ready to admire itself. Procure yourself critical friends.”
“As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to others. There is plenty for everybody in science, and more than can be consumed in our time. One may get a fair name by suppressing references, but the Jewish maxim is true, 'He who seeks a name loses fame.'”
“The tools used by the surgeons must be adapted to the task and where the human brain is concerned they cannot be too refined.”

Source : Lars Leksell (1971). “Stereotaxis and Radiosurgery: An Operative System”
“The thing about Tolkien, about The Lord of the Rings, is that it's perfect. It's this whole world, this whole process of immersion, this journey. It's not, I'm pretty sure, actually true, but that makes it more amazing, that someone could make it all up. Reading it changes everything.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.103, Macmillan
“Don't appeal to mercy to God the Father up in the sky, little man, because he's not at home and never was at home, and couldn't care less. What you do with yourself, whether you are happy or unhappy- live or die- is strictly your business and the universe doesn't care. In fact you may be the universe and the only cause of all your troubles. But, at best, the most you can hope for is comradeship with comrades no more divine (or just as divine) as you are. So quit sniveling and face up to it- 'Thou art God!'”
“The American Dream has really good PR. It's kind of difficult to live in the United States and not on some level be pulled into the allure of the American Dream. It's in the DNA of the country. So, for a population coming out of slavery, desperate to become part of the full life of the United States, it only makes sense that they would embrace this route to the American Dream.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore?”
“I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.”

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