Lionel Hampton

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.

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

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

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.

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