top of page
Quote_1.png
Chico Hamilton

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

Standard 
 Customized
"Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people."

Exlpore more People quotes

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

Quote_1.png
Donna Grant

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

Explore more quotes by Chico Hamilton

Quote_1.png
Chico Hamilton
"My roots and Victor's are jazz, basically, but these two young fellows that we have with us come out of rock bands. And they're tremendously exciting players."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Chico Hamilton
"For the last five years I've been in the production business."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Chico Hamilton
"Luckily, I'm in the position now of being able to play purely because I have the desire to do so."
Quote_1.png
Chico Hamilton
"Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry."
Quote_1.png
Chico Hamilton
"The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it."
Quote_1.png
Chico Hamilton
"A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
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."
bottom of page