Quote by Benny Green
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges

A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. – Benny Green

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Im glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation Ive been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what Im doing because he cares. – Benny Green

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communication
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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. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Browns trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention. – Benny Green

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respect
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We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. Were doing what we enjoy, and were not just playing for each other, were playing for the people. – Benny Green

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Trust
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Here the women have a metronome under their corsets, which beats time, but not music. – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897 [speaking

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I have terrible hearing trouble. I have unwittingly helped to invent and refine a type of music that makes its principal proponents deaf. – Pete Townshend

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All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I dont subscribe to any of that. Its all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the 70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the 80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the 90s. Whos to say what is and isnt a certain type of music? – Neil Young

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Half the time I feel like Im appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and Im an upper. – Wolfman Jack

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