"Working with Benny was important for me and……" — Lionel Hampton
"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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Lionel Hampton
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16 Quotes by Lionel Hampton
Lionel Hampton has 16 quotes on this site.
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Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
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I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
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All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
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Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
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I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
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Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
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Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
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Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her…
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It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of…
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Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
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I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
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Last night at Carnegie Hall, Jack Benny played Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn lost.
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Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken…
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When Jack Benny plays the violin, it sounds as though the strings are still in the cat.
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My idol was Jack Benny and he was the master of subtlety and timing.
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