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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
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#Bottom
#Me
#Play
#Time
I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost feel them; you can't beat that. People will say things, and shout out, it's almost like they're up on the bandstand with you.
- Benny Green
#Club
#Feel
#Feelings
#People
#See
Like Russell, I enjoy the fact that when I'm playing solo, if I want to do something completely spontaneous, I don't have to worry about how I'm going to cue the other musicians, or if it's something that's rehearsed.
- Benny Green
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#Solo
#Spontaneous
#Want
#Worry
I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same.
- Benny Green
#Chemistry
#Conversation
#Feel
#Music
#Us
We have fun, we listen to one another, we challenge one another, we trust one another. We're doing what we enjoy, and we're not just playing for each other, we're playing for the people.
- Benny Green
#Challenge
#Doing
#Fun
#People
#Trust
The first time we performed as a duo, we had already been playing together in various situations.
- Benny Green
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#First Time
#First
#Time
#Together
Any time I need to get a serious attitude adjustment, I put on one of their records, and there are examples there for all time to keep us honest and keep us reaching; they'll never be eclipsed.
- Benny Green
#Attitude
#Never
#Serious
#Time
#Us
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
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#First Time
#First
#Think
#Time
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
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#Bring
#Character
#He
#React
I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.
- Benny Green
#Communication
#Doing
#Great
#Situation
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
#Different Personalities
#Play
#Say
#Way
You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music.
- Benny Green
#Know
#Music
#Precious
#Rules
#Talk
A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.
- Benny Green
#Jazz
#Juggler
#Musician
#Oranges
#Who
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
#Looking
#Magic
#Recording Studio
#Studio
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
#Chance
#Experience
#Feel
#Me
#Realize
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