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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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"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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Donna Grant

"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."

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Donna Grant

"Want to play baseball?' she asked. Shane's eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. "What?' "First base,' she said. "You're already there.' "I'm not running the bases.' "Well, you could at least steal second.' "Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you've gone and ruined it."

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Donna Grant

"I have a doggy, a Japanese Akita, who I live to play with."

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Donna Grant

"Yes, Pluton, actually, in the play. And I play him in my most stentorian voice."

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Donna Grant

"Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything."

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Donna Grant

"I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around."

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Donna Grant

"I play as I feel."

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Donna Grant

"But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can."

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Donna Grant

"Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"

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Donna Grant

"It is never right to play ragtime fast."

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

Boys

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

Mom

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

Hair

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

People

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

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