Benny Green Quotes

"[Art Blakey] would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer." - Benny Green)

Benny Green Quotes

"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

Benny Green Quotes

"Anyone can learn what Louis Armstrong knows about music in a few weeks. Nobody could learn to play like him in a thousand years." - Benny Green

Benny Green Quotes

There is no accounting for jazz singers, that is to say, singers who suffer from the dangerous delusion that they are jazz singers.

Benny Green Quotes

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