Quotes about Jimmy Smith

Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told...

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

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

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And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks...

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