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Benny Green

"Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed."

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Donna Grant

"Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."

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Donna Grant

"Space is almost infinite. As a matter of fact, we think it is infinite."

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Donna Grant

"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

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Donna Grant

"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."

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Donna Grant

"Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout."

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Donna Grant

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd."

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Donna Grant

"Facts and Facts, very useful once out there and there!"

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Donna Grant

"What keeps us from abandoning ourselves entirely to one vice, often, is the fact that we have several."

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Donna Grant

"Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one."

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Donna Grant

"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty."

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Benny Green
"Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed."

Time

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Benny Green
"Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of your life. People gave it to him, and he passed it on to us."

Family

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Benny Green
"Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed."

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Benny Green
"He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer."

People

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Benny Green
"Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father."

Music

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Benny Green
"I'm naturally going to react to that and he'll bring out elements in my musical character that were lying dormant, because I'm relating what he's playing."

Character

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Benny Green
"You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music."

Music

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Benny Green
"I didn't know when I was growing up that this was a very special program, that this wasn't going on in other parts of the country. Now I realize that I was lucky."

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Benny Green
"We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people."

Trust

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Benny Green
"I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape."

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