Adjustment Quote by 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…

— Benny Green

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

— 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…

— Benny Green

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

The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.

— Benny Green

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

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

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

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

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

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

— 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…

— Benny Green