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Jimmy Smith is a famous author.

Our collection contains 16 quotes written by Jimmy, under the main topics: Music - Equality - Mother - Aging - Self-Improvement.

Other people related to Jimmy: Alan Price (Musician)

16 Famous quotes by Jimmy Smith

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

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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"

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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"

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"All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white"

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"People like the idea of the trio, and so I did mostly trio"

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"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play, and he introduced me to Alfred Lion"

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"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too"

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"I just came from Aspen, Colorado, and they had fifteen kids I played for, and they all played horns"

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"I always had the facial hair, so I looked older than I was"

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"Yeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after!"

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"Ninety-five percent of my audience was white"

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"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning!"

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"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed"

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"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice"

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"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ"

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"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor, and Carey Bell's son, Lurie Bell"

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