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Jimmy Smith Quotes & Sayings

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Famous Quotes By Jimmy Smith

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All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white. — Jimmy Smith

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I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad. — Jimmy Smith

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I did my first recording. It was called The Champ. — Jimmy Smith

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I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns. — Jimmy Smith

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My boys told me they'd rather play than practice. — Jimmy Smith

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People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio. — Jimmy Smith

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Ninety-five percent of my audience was white. — Jimmy Smith

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I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys. — Jimmy Smith

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My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed. — Jimmy Smith

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Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too. — Jimmy Smith

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My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion. — Jimmy Smith

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I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was. — Jimmy Smith

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I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell. — Jimmy Smith

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And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find. — Jimmy Smith

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Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning. — Jimmy Smith

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Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after. — Jimmy Smith