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

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

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"Aside from my son, no person has ever shown for me the gentle concern I knew from Governor Adlai Stevenson."

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"He wants to live on through something-and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world."

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"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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"Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list."

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"It's my first record since my son is old enough to understand and I can't even show it to him. Yes, it's affected me, probably in the opposite of how anyone would have thought."

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"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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"A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son."

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"The son of the victim, you know, has been virtually forgotten until recently."

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"I happen to have the benefit of having a son-in-law who was the former Mr. France and a trainer. I like being his benefactor and I like the way he works."

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