Jimmy Smith Quotes

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

"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: Kids)

"People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: People, Idea)

"I played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: Son, Bells)

"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: Beginning, Challenge, Months)

"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: Mom)

"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: Boys, Play, Practice)

"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: First)

"I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: Hair)

"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
(Related: Sound)

"All the colleges I played, most of the colleges, they were white."
- 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."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: Play, Years)

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

"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too."
- Jimmy Smith
(Related: Now)

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