Lionel Hampton famous quotes

04-17-2025

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

#Thank You #Gratitude #Memories
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
-- Lionel Hampton

#Music #Thinking #Talking
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
-- Lionel Hampton

#Drumming #Way
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

#Spirit #Motivated #Keep Going
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.
-- Lionel Hampton

#Music #Clothes #Hats
Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
-- Lionel Hampton

#New Day #Trying #Looks
Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
-- Lionel Hampton

#Music #Hands #Wife
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
-- Lionel Hampton

#Art #Communication #Ideas
Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
-- Lionel Hampton

#Kids #Giving #Feelings
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
-- Lionel Hampton

#Music #Men #Long
I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
-- Lionel Hampton

#Age #Stills
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
-- Lionel Hampton

#Growing Up #Chicago #Harmony

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