"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."

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"The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did."

"I didn't follow the standard rules of bass playing, and many musicians on many different instruments who became noteworthy for their unique or particular style did a very similar thing."

"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."

"You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you."

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"I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues."

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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."

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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."

"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

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"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."