Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
"Lionel Leo Hampton" was an American jazz vibraphonist, pianist, percussionist, bandleader and actor. Hampton ranks among the greatest names in jazz history, having worked with a who's who of jazz musicians, from Louis Armstrong, 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.
If you enjoy these quotes, be sure to check out other famous musicians! More Lionel Hampton on Wikipedia.Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
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.
The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in sports, basketball, football, nothing.
[Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's always jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes you put on her, she's the same old broad.
Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men.
I've always been crazy about playing.
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