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Chico Hamilton

"Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so."

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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."

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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."

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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."

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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."

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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."

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"A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself."

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"Being born with a pair of beady eyes was the best thing that ever happened to me."

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"You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year."

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"I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid."

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Chico Hamilton
"Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so."

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Chico Hamilton
"I've been a little more fortunate, perhaps, than a lot of people have, for the simple reason that I've constantly been moving: so nobody can hit me - you know what I mean? Protesting is not the answer - not along those lines."

People

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Chico Hamilton
"I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music."

Music

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Chico Hamilton
"I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind."

Life

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Chico Hamilton
"Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people."

People

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Chico Hamilton
"We incorporate various electronic devices - the echo plugs and things like that. Actually, all we're trying to do is make that sound musical. As opposed to just making sounds, we do musical things with them."

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Chico Hamilton
"And I'm happy to say that I'm able to find people wherever I go that are not black, not white - they're just human beings. That's where I am, where I've been and where I intend to stay."

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Chico Hamilton
"At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am."

Life

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Chico Hamilton
"Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry."

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Chico Hamilton
"In fact, I had to make an enormous adjustment to this, not only in listening to it but in playing with it. It's a full sound. In some instances, you must have the volume to get the effect."

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