Benny Green
Musician
1927-12-09
Books by Benny Green
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Fred Astaire
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Quotes by Benny Green
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I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.
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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 Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention.
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No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989?
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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonics instead of oranges.
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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
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Rock is a corruption of rhythm and blues which was a dilution of the blues, so that today's mass-marketed noise is a vulgarization of a vulgarization.
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