Benny Green Quotes

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• A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
• The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.
• Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of…
• 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…
• Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.
• 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…
• The magic can happen in a studio. Special things can happen in a recording studio, even though it may seem like a clinical environment from…
• Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
• 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…
• 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 if…
• 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…
• I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.
• I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People…
• I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation…
• I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close…
• 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…
• 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…
• No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?
• Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect.…
• 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 from…

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