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Lionel Hampton

"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."

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"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped by and had to be recorded, a continually growing sum which he could not reconcile with his self-image. He still saw himself, in his mind's eye, as youthful, and when he caught sight of himself in photographs he usually collapsed ... Somebody took my actual physical presence away and substituted this, he had thought from time to time. Oh well, so it went."

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"Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance."

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"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us."

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"Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long."

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"The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age."

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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."
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"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."
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"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
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"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
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"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
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"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."
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"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
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"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
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