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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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Donna Grant

"I have amply provided for my son during my lifetime."

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Donna Grant

"I'm thinking about naming my first son Emmy so I can say I've got one. I want Emmy, Oscar and Tony - and my daughter Grammy."

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Donna Grant

"You know, he likes me because I'm his son. I have to go long and far to find someone who knows me just as me, rather than me the songwriter or whatever."

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Donna Grant

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

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Donna Grant

"Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879."

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Donna Grant

"No, my son's a songwriter and he does that."

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Donna Grant

"My son Wesley has just turned 13. He was 12 during the recording of this record and he is quite a drummer already and has been studying drums since he was four, but he's also very interested in African percussion and studies percussion."

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Donna Grant

"My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness."

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Donna Grant

"My son don't have to say it loud, I'm black and I'm proud. He don't have to be called those crazy names."

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Donna Grant

"I can't say too much about it because I don't know a lot. We're not told what's in store for our characters until we turn up to shoot the episode. But it's fair to say that Betty and her son bring a brand new mystery to the street and they will be around all season."

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

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

First

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

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

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