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. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
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. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
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… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Art was carrying me a lot of the time. When you're accustomed to playing with Art, and you play with other drummers, it's as… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
The first jazz pianist I heard was Thelonious Monk. My father was listening to an album of his called 'Monk's Dream' almost every day… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
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… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
We have different personalities, but in a harmonious way, I'd say. Anyway, we were booked to play at the festival as a duo; and… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father. — Benny Green Copy Share Image
Just to have that sense of family, it gives you something that you know you need to take care of for the rest of… — Benny Green Copy Share Image
