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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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Akshay Vasu

"I was born in Montreal in 1939, the second son of poor immigrants."

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Akshay Vasu

"I do not wear my emotions on my sleeve. I was once described by my own son Stephen as an emotional ostrich."

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Akshay Vasu

"I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people."

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Akshay Vasu

"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."

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Akshay Vasu

"The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue."

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Akshay Vasu

"My thought was I should try to stick with names that people may recognize like Robert Johnson, Son House, and Hoagy Carmichael, so if somebody cared to research, they would find a wealth of material."

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Akshay Vasu

"My youngest son, who is now the drummer in my band, lives in Brooklyn. My oldest son is about to move out to California, and my daughters are both out of town."

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Akshay Vasu

"Lee was such a fine, high-class boy. If my son killed the president he would have said so. That's the way he was brought up."

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Akshay Vasu

"My oldest son, Gary, is a seasoned minister and travels with me for ministers' conferences."

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Akshay Vasu

"I am the son of a small and far-away nation and the other laureates have all come from different countries from all over the world and we all were equally received here with signs of sympathy."

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Jimmy Smith
"My boys told me they'd rather play than practice."

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

Kids

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

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

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

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

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