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• Lionel Hampton:

  Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

• Lionel Hampton:

  Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.

• Lionel Hampton:

  Playing gives me as much good feeling now as it did when I was a bitty kid.

• Lionel Hampton:

  I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano.

• Lionel Hampton:

  Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamon

• Lionel Hampton:

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

• Lionel Hampton:

  The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.

• Lionel Hampton:

  Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.

• Lionel Hampton:

  Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

• John Paul Stevens:

  The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.