Jimmy Smith quotes:

I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.

I just came from Aspen, Colorado and they had fifteen kids I played for and they all played horns.

Michael Coleman, now that was a boy that taught me some stuff too.

I always had the facial hair so I looked older than I was.

Three months. I was playing the organ for three months. It was a challenge for me in the beginning.

I did my first recording. It was called The Champ.

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.