Jimmy Smith Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“Ninety-five percent of my audience was white.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”