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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."

Lionel Hampton, American Musician
Music, Wife
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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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"Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating."
Talking, Thinking
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"Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general."
Musicians,
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"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."
God,
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"So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age."
Age,
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"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano."
Love,
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"Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G."
Public,
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"Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things."
Day, Trying
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"I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change."
Change,
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"Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid."
Feelings, Feeling, Now

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"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

Maya Angelou, American Poet
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"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

Plato, Greek Philosopher
Music, Life, Imagination, Soul
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"I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better."

William Faulkner, American Novelist
Music, Talent, Words
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"Music in the soul can be heard by the universe."

Lao Tzu, Chinese Philosopher
Music, Soul, Universe
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"Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God."

Martin Luther, German Leader
Music, Art, God
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

Napoleon Bonaparte, French Leader
Music, Race, Voice
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"When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author
Music, Fear, Danger
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"Music fills the infinite between two souls."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet
Music, Infinite
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"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete
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"Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below."

Joseph Addison, English Writer
Music, Heaven
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