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.

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

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.