Johnny Griffin Quotes
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My grammar school graduating class in 1941 had a little party for 13 or 14 year-old kids. [Trumpeter] King Kolax’s band played for the party and Gene Ammons was playing tenor saxophone with the band. And that’s when I said, That’s it! Just like that, tunnelvision ever since. (Johnny Griffin Quotes)
Jazz is music made by and for people who have chosen to feel good in spite of conditions (Johnny Griffin Quotes)
I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode (Johnny Griffin Quotes)