"Learn everything you know in all keys."

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Joe Pass

“This year - today - I am repenting of my dependence on fossil fuels.”
“One of India's biggest advantages is our young demographic and that we have a youthful population that is indeed our future.”
“I almost never try to make the audience comfortable. I wouldn't want that if I were in the audience.”
“Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.”

Source : Parade Interview, parade.com. December 4, 2007.
“It's unthinkable not to love -you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to be Philip Larkin.”
“It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy.”
“Redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take.”
“I happen to be a twin. I grew up half of my life with someone who looks and sounds like me. And I believe it's possible to hold twin desires in your head, such as the desire to create painting and destroy painting at once. The desire to look at a black American culture as underserved, in need of representation, a desire to mine that said culture and to lay its parts bare and look at it almost clinically.”

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