Lionel Hampton

Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.

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

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.

Film has always been a really good tool for me to communicate emotion about why I create a collection. I'm probably one of the first designers to make short films.

I don't think they're going to pay me to play Mufasa.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.