Jimmy Smith's Quotes
Born: 1925-12-08
Profession: Musician
Nation: American
Biography of Jimmy Smith
I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.
Tags: Fifteen, Kids, PlayedI played with Eddie Taylor's son, Tim Taylor and Carey Bells son Lurie Bell.
Tags: Bell, Played, SonI played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.
Tags: Big, Guys, PlayedMy first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
Tags: Guy, Heard, LionThree months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
Tags: Beginning, Challenge, PlayingYeah, you know everybody has somebody that they patterned themselves after.
Tags: After, Everybody, ThemselvesAnd 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.
Tags: Found, Half, TookI 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.
Tags: Him, Learn, Mad