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  • And then when I found my sound, it took me two and a half weeks to find my sound and when I did I pulled out all the stops, all the stops I could find.
    - Jimmy Smith
  • Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.
    - Jimmy Smith
  • I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930 and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ and I got mad.
    - Jimmy Smith
  • My first recording, a guy came down to Philadelphia and heard me play and he introduced me to Alfred Lion.
    - Jimmy Smith
  • Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.
    - Jimmy Smith
  • My boys told me they'd rather play than practice.
    - Jimmy Smith