Lionel Hampton Quotes

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

  Lionel Hampton

  Inspirational, Thank You, Gratitude

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

  Lionel Hampton

  Music, Thinking, Talking

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

  Lionel Hampton

  Music, Men, Long

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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

  Play, Ideas, Spirit

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

  Lionel Hampton

  Drumming, Way, Best Way

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

  Lionel Hampton

  Art, Communication, Ideas

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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.

  Lionel Hampton

  Music, Clothes, Dresses

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

  Lionel Hampton

  Kids, Giving, Feelings

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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.

  Lionel Hampton

  Music, Hands, Wife

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

  Lionel Hampton

  New Day, Trying, Looks

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• 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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• I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

  Lionel Hampton

  Age, Stills

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