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Lionel Hampton

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

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"I do not think either virginity or old age contemptible, and some of the shrewdest minds I have met inhabited the bodies of old maids."

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"At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book."

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"You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do."

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"When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age."

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"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

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"I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs."

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"In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show."

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"In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself."

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"The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too."

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"The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age."

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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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"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
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"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
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"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
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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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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."
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"Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind."
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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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"I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s."
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