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.

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

Shaft was a pop culture figure along t he lines of, I guess, Dirty Harry - except that he wasn't as much of a racist. So yeah, I was always a fan.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.