Top 16 Quotes & Sayings by Jimmy Smith

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Jimmy Smith.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

James Oscar Smith was an American jazz musician whose albums often appeared on Billboard magazine charts. He helped popularize the Hammond B-3 organ, creating a link between jazz and 1960s soul music.

American - Musician | December 8, 1925 - February 8, 2005

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

Jimmy Smith

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

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

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

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

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

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

Jimmy Smith

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

Jimmy Smith

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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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.

Jimmy Smith

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

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