Quotes of Benny Green - somelinesforyou

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- Benny Green

“ The tour was just Ray Brown. We were booked, in the course of this tour, at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland to play as a duo. ”

- 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 we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal. ”

- Benny Green

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- Benny Green

“ 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 going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen. ”

- Benny Green

“ Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much. ”

- 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

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- 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

“ 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 the bottom dropped out. ”

- Benny Green

“ The tour was just Ray Brown. We were booked, in the course of this tour, at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland to play as a duo. ”

- 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 we decided we wouldn't have any rehearsal. ”

- Benny Green

“ No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989? ”

- Benny Green

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- Benny Green

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- 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 he's playing. ”

- 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 he's playing. ”

- Benny Green

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- Benny Green

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- Benny Green

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- 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 from the outside looking in. ”

- 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 if the bottom dropped out. ”

- Benny Green

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- 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 from the time I was born. ”

- Benny Green

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- 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

“ A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges. ”

- 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

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

- 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 from the outside looking in. ”

- Benny Green
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