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Jimmy Smith

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

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Asa Don Brown

"There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything."

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Asa Don Brown

"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning."

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Asa Don Brown

"To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness."

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Asa Don Brown

"You cannot skip the beginning and hope to reach the end. You will fall as soon as you get there."

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Asa Don Brown

"The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small."

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Asa Don Brown

"The first stage of any development is infancy."

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Asa Don Brown

"I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek."

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Asa Don Brown

"Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues."

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Asa Don Brown

"Isn't that the way everything begins? A night, a love, a once and for all."

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Asa Don Brown

"A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed."

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

First

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Jimmy Smith
"Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning."

Beginning

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

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

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

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Jimmy Smith
"I did my first recording. It was called The Champ."

First

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

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

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