Lionel Hampton Quotes

#1. Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Eckstine, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Paul Whiteman, Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra, Lionel Hampton, the Mills Brothers, Woody Herman, and Nat King Cole. "Mona Lisa, men have named you,

George Hodgman

#2. I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

Quincy Jones

#3. Lionel Hampton would invite a woman from the audience to dance with him, but

Tina Fey

#4. The myth of the inevitability of economic globalization is based largely on the work of Milton Friedman, and easily the most underreported story of our time is that the current economy proves Friedman flatly wrong.

Molly Ivins

#5. You are a different kind of Irishman, Goll," was all she said.

"Every Irishman is a different kind of Irishman," said Goll.

Charles Brady

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

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

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

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. The centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

Mark Fisher

#12. Previous seekers of empire tended to assume that they already understood the world. Conquest merely utilised and spread their view of the world.

Yuval Noah Harari

#13. 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.

Lionel Hampton

#14. The virus of irony is as widespread in California as herpes, and once you're infected with it, it lives in your brain forever.

Neal Stephenson

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

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#17. I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.

Jane Pauley

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

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#19. I don't remember my mother. She died when I was one year old. My distracted and callous sensibility comes from the lack of that warmth and from my useless longing after kisses I don't remember.

Fernando Pessoa

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

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#21. The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.

Anton Yelchin

#22. Charles Talent Manx the Third at your service, my dear! CEO of Christmasland Enterprises, director of Christmasland Entertainment, president of fun! Also His Eminence, the King Shit of Turd Hill, although it doesn't say that on my card.

Joe Hill

#23. I believe that in a good collaboration, the authors bring their strengths to the story; one author's strength cancels the other author's weakness, and back and forth it goes.

Jack Dann

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

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

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

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#27. 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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#28. Headlong is my natural state, not prudent patience.

Ann Aguirre

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

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

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

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#32. Well, we certainly weren't making a cartoon show for kids. It was a completely different kind of idea.

Dave Rowntree

#33. When I am not paying attention to my children, they appear to desperately need it. When I am giving them my full attention, they seem just as happy to play by themselves. It is as though they need to be certain of my attention in order to play their own games and ignore me.

Sarah Ruhl

#34. I want to hold on tight to everything and everyone I cherished and, at the same time, saw in a way I never had before that living on this earth, growing older, and growing up in the true sense of the word is really about learning how to let go.

Katrina Kenison

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

Lionel Hampton