Lionel Hampton Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Lionel Hampton:

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#bc3d00aa

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#45531867

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#5c9a39a5

The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#0be450a1

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#cf2cf9b7

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#d36737b1

Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#2f5dc30f

I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#901ec074

Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#134f5014

Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#d69b0207

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#4b213dd5

Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
~Lionel Hampton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#013824dd

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
~Lionel Hampton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/lionel-hampton-quotes/#e026da56

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