Lionel Hampton Quotes

17 quotes in 163 categories

• Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
• I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
• All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
• Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
• Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
• I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
• Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
• Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
• Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
• It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old…
• Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
• Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
• I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
• Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
• The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
• So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

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