Lionel Hampton Quotes & Sayings

#1. So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

#2. Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

#3. The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

#4. I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

#5. 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.

#6. Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

#7. Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

#8. Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.

#9. Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

#10. All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.

#11. I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

#12. I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.

#13. Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

#14. 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.

#15. 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.

#16. Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

#17. Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

#18. Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

Lionel Hampton Quotes