1.
Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
Lionel Hampton
2.
Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
Lionel Hampton
3.
Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
Lionel Hampton
4.
Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.
Lionel Hampton
5.
All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.
Lionel Hampton
6.
Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
Lionel Hampton
7.
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
8.
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
9.
Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.
Lionel Hampton
10.
Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.
Lionel Hampton
11.
I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.
Lionel Hampton
12.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.
Lionel Hampton
