Top 19 Quotes & Sayings by Lionel Hampton

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Lionel Hampton.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
Lionel Hampton

Lionel Leo Hampton was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, and bandleader. Hampton worked with jazz musicians from Teddy Wilson, Benny Goodman, and Buddy Rich, to Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Quincy Jones. In 1992, he was inducted into the Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1996.

I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change. — © Lionel Hampton
I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
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.
Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
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.
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
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.
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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