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Jimmy Smith

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

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

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"One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair."

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"I don't consider myself bald, I'm just taller than my hair."

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"Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself."

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"A hair in the head is worth two in the brush."

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"I wasn't making it with the violin because I was playing all of the 'long hair' stuff."

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"Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction... my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot."

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"I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions."

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"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."

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"I felt like the dark hair added like a toughness to my face also, which was really important."

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"It was just using the liquid shampoo - the Russians have one very similar to the stuff we use on the Shuttle - you just wet your hair with it and then wipe it out."

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"My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed."
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"Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too."
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"I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns."
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"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."
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"My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion."
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"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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"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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