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'd be all for everybody keeping their sidearms if they're in the military and on a military installation. That's something we need to get back to.

I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man.

I have a naturally camp sensibility and a camp sense of humour. I love the icons that gay people love.