Lionel Hampton quotes
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“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.”
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“Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.”
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“Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.”
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“I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I can invent, the more ideas come to me.”
-- Lionel Hampton -
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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 clothes she's the same old broad.”
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“Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.”
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“Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.”
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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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“Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.”
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“I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.”
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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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