Lionel Hampton

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

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

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

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