Best 10 quotes of Lionel Hampton on MyQuotes

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

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

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.

I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.

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

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

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

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

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